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Brocade ICX Series (cheap & powerful 10gbE/40gbE switching)

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DarthCirrus

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Hello!

This is a great thread, lot of great information on the first page! But I don’t see any 24 or 48 port 10g RJ45 switches, preferably with 4 or more QSFP+ 40g or QSFP28 100g.
I see one 48 port SFP+, but the cost of those MicroTik adaptors seems to make it prohibitively expensive for a big 10+ station 10GbaseT deploy.

Any recommendations in the Brocade family for switches that would meet those recommendations?
 
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That's the ICX 7650 series, if you can find one. ICX 7650-48ZP for example. I'd prefer an Arista 7050T that might actually be found on the market, personally.
 
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bitbckt said:
That's the ICX 7650 series, if you can find one. ICX 7650-48ZP for example. I'd prefer an Arista 7050T that might actually be found on the market, personally.
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Thanks for the quick response!

Wow! Those Brocade switches are not readily available on eBay and very expensive; I can see why you recommend the Arista 7050T
 
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Matta

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Need help with Brocade ICX6610-48p:
Currently I have Default VLAN ID:1 with all ports untagged.
Through web gui, how to add two VLANs (VLAN ID:100 AND VLAN ID:200) to all ports, but to also keep default untagged ports also, for my main network ?
Thanks !
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For example - If I try to add some ports to VLAN ID:100, they get deducted from VLAN ID:1.
 
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Matta said:
Need help with Brocade ICX6610-48p:
Currently I have Default VLAN ID:1 with all ports untagged.
Through web gui, how to add two VLANs (VLAN ID:100 AND VLAN ID:200) to all ports, but to also keep default untagged ports also, for my main network ?
Thanks !
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For example - If I try to add some ports to VLAN ID:100, they get deducted from VLAN ID:1.
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You are looking for dual-mode. Doable from the web-gui, but if memory serves convoluted and not intuitive.

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Vesalius said:
You are looking for dual-mode. Doable from the web-gui, but if memory serves convoluted and not intuitive.

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If I add port (that's connected to my main router) to VLAN and make it dual mode, I lose connection on it.

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I've managed to configure it successfully by using terminal. I haven't figured out how to do it via web gui.
 
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Just had the strangest thing happen on my FCX648S, wanted to know if anyone had seen this kind of behavior...
  • Switch had no lights at all on the ports, links were down on the remote side
  • Fans were running as per usual (can't tell you if they were loud or quiet, on this switch they have one noise level - loud)
  • POE was still powering end devices
  • A pull of the power cable fixed it, all came back up
  • Except one piece - a 'dual-mode NNNN' statement was dropped from a single interface, but not other interfaces
  • The other interfaces had been added after the one that had the statement dropped, so the dropped statement had for sure been written
  • I didn't attempt to get anything off the console, just got that side of the house back up and running
Anyone had similar behavior?
 
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Matta said:
If I add port (that's connected to my main router) to VLAN and make it dual mode, I lose connection on it.

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I've managed to configure it successfully by using terminal. I haven't figured out how to do it via web gui.
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Just avoid the web GUI. It'll save you a lot of headache :D
 
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Anyone have recommendations for SFP+ modules for the 7250 and 7150 switches? Like, any that work real well, or any that really really don’t?
Mostly connecting to OM5, though will probably have 3x 50cm DACs too
 
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TonyArrr said:
Anyone have recommendations for SFP+ modules for the 7250 and 7150 switches? Like, any that work real well, or any that really really don’t?
Mostly connecting to OM5, though will probably have 3x 50cm DACs too
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Anything from fs.com would be fine. The switches aren't picky according to other people in this thread; but my only experience is with fs.com modules. I order them coded as Brocade. Cisco generic coding is also fine from what I've read. I have their SFP/QSFP code box so I code the ends of DACs to match the devices, but the cables technically worked fine without that (I have a mix of Mellanox, Brocade/Ruckus, Arista).
 
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TonyArrr

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LodeRunner said:
Anything from fs.com would be fine. The switches aren't picky according to other people in this thread; but my only experience is with fs.com modules. I order them coded as Brocade. Cisco generic coding is also fine from what I've read. I have their SFP/QSFP code box so I code the ends of DACs to match the devices, but the cables technically worked fine without that (I have a mix of Mellanox, Brocade/Ruckus, Arista).
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Sweet, I’ll go and pick some from there. I am working my way through this thread for info, but only up to page 170 so far and one of my new switches will be here tomorrow

thanks for the info!
 
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@kpfleming -- the stupid idea fairy visited me. Think I could fake having a VRF with dot1q (qinq) tunneling? it would abstract away the "real"/customer VLANs from the switch port I want to bring them "out of". I'd need to figure out how to set route preferences to use the FW path if it's up; I'm not sure if I can get e.g. OSPF to prefer a lower-cost OSPF route over a directly-connected route. (Which seems both stupid, and counterintuitively useful...)
Thoughts?
 
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So I lucked out and caught a 7150-24 on the cheap, and then lucked out even more when I received it and found it was not "open box - lightly used in as new condition", but instead "someone bought this, never even unboxed it and are now liquidating".

Ran through @fohdeesha's guides and other than a little problem with TFTP and DCHP (had to give it a IP reservation on my DHCP server, reboot the switch, then turn off dchp-client once it had the IP and manually set it in order to get it to connect to the TFTP server to download fastiron... weirdness) all working great! Thank you so much for all the info you've consolidated and discovered here!

Now just waiting on my Medium Beef core switch and Micro Beefer entertainment unit switch, and for the sparkies to come and run the cables in the walls!
 
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Is anyone aware of a 2.5gbe switch that also has an sfp port (preferably on the rear of the chassis)? It looks like Trendnet made one at one time, but it is since EOL and essentially unobtanium. I have a 6610 with a breakout cable (4 sfp) in the back and I would like to add a 2.5gbe switch to my stack in order to take advantage of some of the more consumer-focused gear that can make use of it. 10gbe is always my first choice, but sometimes that just isn't an option. Thanks in advance!

Edit: There has to be something other than the $4000 ICX 7150-C10ZP
 
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tubs-ffm

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kpfleming said:
Yes, I've been using it since a few days after it was released.
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Does the WebUI work?

I used 09.0.10c before for testing and it was running OK. But when I changed to 09.0.10d I cannot use the WebUI any longer. Shortly after the login screen is shown I changes to the dashboard view and back again to the login screen. This cycle continues in a loop with a frequency of about 1 second.
 
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tubs-ffm said:
Does the WebUI work?

I used 09.0.10c before for testing and it was running OK. But when I changed to 09.0.10d I cannot use the WebUI any longer. Shortly after the login screen is shown I changes to the dashboard view and back again to the login screen. This cycle continues in a loop with a frequency of about 1 second.
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Yes, it works fine. It has limited functionality so I don't use it often, but I do use it for making configuration backups.
 
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tubs-ffm said:
I used 09.0.10c before for testing and it was running OK. But when I changed to 09.0.10d I cannot use the WebUI any longer. Shortly after the login screen is shown I changes to the dashboard view and back again to the login screen. This cycle continues in a loop with a frequency of about 1 second.
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My web interface login problem is solved with version 09.0.10e.

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RUCKUS ICX FastIron 09.0.10e (GA) Software Release (.zip) and RUCKUS ICX FastIron 09.0.10e (GA) Release Notes Published or Updated on 02/10/23
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Thank you!
 
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