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StarsAndBars

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Hello all! I am trying to fully reset a 6610 to factory defaults and clear out any references to a stack member, but even after doing so, I still get this:

ICX6610-48P Router#sh run
Current configuration:
!
ver 08.0.30uT7f3
!
stack unit 1
module 1 icx6610-48p-poe-port-management-module
module 2 icx6610-qsfp-10-port-160g-module
module 3 icx6610-8-port-10g-dual-mode-module
stack unit 2
module 1 icx6610-48p-poe-port-management-module
module 2 icx6610-qsfp-10-port-160g-module
module 3 icx6610-8-port-10g-dual-mode-module
stack disable

So then I try this and this is what I get:

ICX6610-48P Router#stack unconfigure clean
This command is not available on standalone or Active Controller

What should I do from here? I would have thought a factory reset command would have done it, but it did not. I am on the latest bootloader and software from the guide (at least I think I am, I followed the instructions to update in the guide).

Thanks!
 
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AndroidCat

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StarsAndBars said:
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So then I try this and this is what I get:

ICX6610-48P Router#stack unconfigure clean
This command is not available on standalone or Active Controller

What should I do from here? I would have thought a factory reset command would have done it, but it did not. I am on the latest bootloader and software from the guide (at least I think I am, I followed the instructions to update in the guide).

Thanks!
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You have old stacking configs still lingering on your switch. You have to delete them and reload.
I don't remember if you can do it from bootloader level too, but the below OS console method works for sure:

Code: 
over serial (will not work over telnet/ssh)
#at any OS level:
#press ctrl+y, let go, then press m, then hit enter
#at the new console, show files with:
dir
#delete all the config files
del stacking.boot
del startup-config
del startup-config.backup
del startup-config.old
#reboot
reset
 
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SlothCroissant said:
Hey folks, long time lurker, first time poster. I've scanned through this thread and have gotten mixed results (some people saying their 6610s ramp the fans to a million RPM all the time, others who never see north of 40C), and I think I just need to ask flat out:

Got an ICX6610 that I've been running for a few months now, and most of my learning has been from this thread (came from a Cisco C3750X-48P to a ICX6610-48P). Quick question - what do people see as far as temps are concerned with these? Mine seems to sit at 75C in a room that is around 72F-74F, and I can't figure out why it's so hot. I've heard it runs a bit spicy, but I didn't think it lived at its fan speed switching point.


Thoughts?

EDIT: Just glanced, my R720XD two rack-Us away from this switch sits at 21C.
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That seems pretty hot. Maybe there is not enough room around the switch for proper cooling with all the POE stuff going on?

In any case you could look at that thread:

If you don't care about the noise 6610 is making, just take a look towards the end of said thread. Plexiglass top with external fans will do the trick.
 
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What's best practice for "daisy-chaining" switches if I can't stack them, in terms of ACLs and VLANs?

I have a main ICX 6610 switch with all my VLANs and ACLs set up. There is a 10Gbe link to a ICX6450 in my office 3 floors up.

I have VLAN10, 20, 40 and 90 which I send through the 10Gbe link all as tagged. This seems to work ok.

So far ACLs seem to work when defined only on the ICX6610, but obviously if there is routing internal to the ICX6450 the ACLs will not apply I assume.

Questions for those who daisy chain switches (without stacking):
- Do you replicate all your ACLs on the second switch?

- how do you send your VLANs over to the second switch? just tag them all on the interface link between the two switches?

- Do you make additional router-interfaces (ve) for each VLAN on the subsidiary switch? I have been doing so.
For instance, VLAN 10 is 192.168.10.0/24. I have ve 10 on ICX6610 with ip addr 192.168.10.2/24 and ve 10 on ICX6450 with ip 192.168.10.3/24.

Not sure what is "best practice" here.
 
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I don't think there is a 'best practice'.

The first step is to determine whether the traffic in the 6450 needs to be routed there, or can go over the transport link to the 6610 and back. If it can do that, then your life with layer 3 routing and access-lists will be easier as they will only live in one location. You could even have the 6450 setup in purely layer 2 mode and not even worry about VEs and IP addresses on it.
 
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kpfleming said:
I don't think there is a 'best practice'.

The first step is to determine whether the traffic in the 6450 needs to be routed there, or can go over the transport link to the 6610 and back. If it can do that, then your life with layer 3 routing and access-lists will be easier as they will only live in one location. You could even have the 6450 setup in purely layer 2 mode and not even worry about VEs and IP addresses on it.
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you've sort of lost me there. Thanks for the input! but can you elaborate on how to determine if the traffic in the 6450 needs to be routed there?
 
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seatrope said:
you've sort of lost me there. Thanks for the input! but can you elaborate on how to determine if the traffic in the 6450 needs to be routed there?
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If you have more than 10Gbit/s of traffic between devices attached to the 6450 *and* that traffic crosses VLANs, then you need layer 3 routing on the 6450 because otherwise the 10GbE link between it and the 6610 would be a bottleneck.

If you have less than 10Gbit/s of traffic between those devices, or they are on the same VLAN (and thus layer 2 switching would be sufficient), then you don't need any layer 3 configuration on the 6450 at all.
 
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kpfleming said:
I don't think there is a 'best practice'.

The first step is to determine whether the traffic in the 6450 needs to be routed there, or can go over the transport link to the 6610 and back. If it can do that, then your life with layer 3 routing and access-lists will be easier as they will only live in one location. You could even have the 6450 setup in purely layer 2 mode and not even worry about VEs and IP addresses on it.
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this makes perfect sense! Thank you @kpfleming!
 
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Craig Curtin

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Just wanted to say a hearty thank you for all the work that has gone into the documentation from the OP - just followed through step by step on 3 new switches that i received and everything worked perfectly !

Craig
 
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Damo said:
In the guide it says "By default, all ports are in VLAN 1" for the ICX 6450 does that include the 4SPF+ ports? I have an "Cable Matters 1000BASE-T Gigabit SFP to RJ45 Copper Ethernet Modular Transceiver" but doesn't work(ve interface 1 IP doesn't ping). Using any of the ethernet ports direct works (Cat 7 Ethernet Cable High-Speed Flat Gigabit RJ45 LAN)

If not how can I add them?
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Have you confirmed that the SFP module is functional in another system? If not, you're dealing with at least two variables, instead of one :)
 
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Damo said:
In the guide it says "By default, all ports are in VLAN 1" for the ICX 6450 does that include the 4SPF+ ports? I have an "Cable Matters 1000BASE-T Gigabit SFP to RJ45 Copper Ethernet Modular Transceiver" but doesn't work(ve interface 1 IP doesn't ping). Using any of the ethernet ports direct works (Cat 7 Ethernet Cable High-Speed Flat Gigabit RJ45 LAN)

If not how can I add them?
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I don't have a 6450, so I don't know, but do you have to manually set the speed for a SFP+ port if you're not using a 10G module, or will it properly auto-detect?
 
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Damo said:
In the guide it says "By default, all ports are in VLAN 1" for the ICX 6450 does that include the 4SPF+ ports? I have an "Cable Matters 1000BASE-T Gigabit SFP to RJ45 Copper Ethernet Modular Transceiver" but doesn't work(ve interface 1 IP doesn't ping). Using any of the ethernet ports direct works (Cat 7 Ethernet Cable High-Speed Flat Gigabit RJ45 LAN)

If not how can I add them?
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Did you follow through the initial config that created a VLAN and gave it an IP Address etc ?

Did you take away the stacking config for the SFP+ ports and then follow the licenscing to ensure they were then enabled as SFP+ standard use ports ?

This is what i have ended up with after following the config and have confirmed that one of the SFP+ ports work when attached to an Intel DAC



SSH@CURTO-6610#show run
Current configuration:
!
ver 08.0.30uT7f3
!
stack unit 1
module 1 icx6610-48-port-management-module
module 2 icx6610-qsfp-10-port-160g-module
module 3 icx6610-8-port-10g-dual-mode-module
stack disable
!
!
!
!
vlan 1 name DEFAULT-VLAN by port
router-interface ve 1
!
!
!
!
!
aaa authentication web-server default local
aaa authentication login default local
enable aaa console
hostname CURTO-6610
ip dhcp-client disable
ip dns server-address 172.16.100.1
ip route 0.0.0.0/0 172.16.100.1
!
no telnet server
username root password .....
!
!
clock summer-time
clock timezone gmt GMT+10
!
!
ntp
disable serve
server 216.239.35.0
server 216.239.35.4
server 172.16.100.1
!
!
no web-management http
!

interface ethernet 1/3/1
speed-duplex 10G-full
!
interface ethernet 1/3/2
speed-duplex 10G-full
!
interface ethernet 1/3/3
speed-duplex 10G-full
!
interface ethernet 1/3/4
speed-duplex 10G-full
!
interface ethernet 1/3/5
speed-duplex 10G-full
!
interface ethernet 1/3/6
speed-duplex 10G-full
!
interface ethernet 1/3/7
speed-duplex 10G-full
!
interface ethernet 1/3/8
speed-duplex 10G-full
!
interface ve 1
ip address 172.16.100.252 255.255.255.0
!
!
end

SSH@CURTO-6610#

 
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Craig Curtin

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Hey Guys,

New to Ruckus/Brocade - obviously pretty close to Cisco CLI that i have been working with nearly forever - has anyone got a good site that they could refer me to with

1) Basic differences
2) A good cheat sheet for all the basic commands to get L3 VLAN trunks and ESXI servers running ?


Craig
 
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Craig Curtin said:
Did you follow through the initial config that created a VLAN and gave it an IP Address etc ?

Did you take away the stacking config for the SFP+ ports and then follow the licenscing to ensure they were then enabled as SFP+ standard use ports ?

This is what i have ended up with after following the config and have confirmed that one of the SFP+ ports work when attached to an Intel DAC



SSH@CURTO-6610#show run
Current configuration:
!
ver 08.0.30uT7f3
!
stack unit 1
module 1 icx6610-48-port-management-module
module 2 icx6610-qsfp-10-port-160g-module
module 3 icx6610-8-port-10g-dual-mode-module
stack disable
!
!
!
!
vlan 1 name DEFAULT-VLAN by port
router-interface ve 1
!
!
!
!
!
aaa authentication web-server default local
aaa authentication login default local
enable aaa console
hostname CURTO-6610
ip dhcp-client disable
ip dns server-address 172.16.100.1
ip route 0.0.0.0/0 172.16.100.1
!
no telnet server
username root password .....
!
!
clock summer-time
clock timezone gmt GMT+10
!
!
ntp
disable serve
server 216.239.35.0
server 216.239.35.4
server 172.16.100.1
!
!
no web-management http
!

interface ethernet 1/3/1
speed-duplex 10G-full
!
interface ethernet 1/3/2
speed-duplex 10G-full
!
interface ethernet 1/3/3
speed-duplex 10G-full
!
interface ethernet 1/3/4
speed-duplex 10G-full
!
interface ethernet 1/3/5
speed-duplex 10G-full
!
interface ethernet 1/3/6
speed-duplex 10G-full
!
interface ethernet 1/3/7
speed-duplex 10G-full
!
interface ethernet 1/3/8
speed-duplex 10G-full
!
interface ve 1
ip address 172.16.100.252 255.255.255.0
!
!
end

SSH@CURTO-6610#
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Not sure what part of the guide you're talking about can't see it in the 6450


Current configuration:
!
ver 08.0.30uT313
!
stack unit 1
module 1 icx6450-48p-poe-port-management-module
module 2 icx6450-sfp-plus-4port-40g-module
!
!
!
lag lag dynamic id 1
!
!
vlan 1 name DEFAULT-VLAN by port
router-interface ve 1
!
!
!
!
!
aaa authentication web-server default local
aaa authentication login default local
ip dhcp-client disable
ip dns server-address 192.168.0.1
ip route 0.0.0.0/0 192.168.0.1
!
username root password .....
!
!
!
!
!
interface ve 1
ip address 192.168.0.50 255.255.255.0
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
end

The SFP module does work @kpfleming
 
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As noted above, you almost certainly need to set the speed of the SFP+ port to 1G instead of the 10G default. Have you given that a try?

Also, while you're bringing up the box you should consider upgrading to 08.0.95<current>, since you're on 08.0.30 now.
 
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kpfleming said:
As noted above, you almost certainly need to set the speed of the SFP+ port to 1G instead of the 10G default. Have you given that a try?

Also, while you're bringing up the box you should consider upgrading to 08.0.95<current>, since you're on 08.0.30 now.
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It’s a 6450; IIRC the 6000 family can only go to 8.0.30
 
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Does anyone know whether there will be a 4X25GF module? There is a 4x10GF (4x 10G SFP+) and 1x100GQ (1x 100G QSFP28), but no 4x25G SFP module... The 4x25G module would make the ICX 7650-24ZP perfect for my application

(I know, chances are low - but maybe anybody has heard anything? If not, I will contact Ruckus)
 
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