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

[bitbckt]

Does E stands for exhaust and I for intake?

Yes.

Does it affect noise level

No.

 

[nw60312]

I have a ICX 7150 that I can no longer get into. Its powered up, running doing it's thing. I have a mac with Ventura, I have never been able to get the UBS console to work. The OOB network port used to allow me to get access. Web console is enabled but can't find a way to access it,

Switch IP address is 172.16.10.5 management interface is set to 1.

If connect to the management port with an IP address of 172.16.10.200 I can ping the switch at .5 but SSH or web console just times out.

Any suggestions of how to get back into the switch?

 

[NablaSquaredG]

Any suggestions of how to get back into the switch?

Buy a serial adapter + console cable (Cisco pinout)

 

[nw60312]

Buy a serial adapter + console cable (Cisco pinout)

Any recommendations for known working adapters and cables?

 

[kpfleming]

Any recommendations for known working adapters and cables?

I've got a spare Brocade cable (came out of a 7250-24P box) still in its original bag, would be happy to ship it to you for a reasonable price if you are interested. It should work with any USB-DE9 adapter with a male connector (I use a Tripp-Lite adapter because it's what I had on hand).

PM me if interested.

 

[Whattteva]

Hi, I just got the Brocade ICX 6450-48 and it's working great so far, but I do have one problem. It is annoyingly loud, which puzzled me because the OP said that the one fan is supposed to be nearly silent, but mine sounds like a jet engine. Is there any set of commands I can do to throttle this thing down? My use case is very light. I don't use PoE and only have like 8x 1G devices, so most of the ports are empty. I may add 2x 10G in the near future, but that's still a ways off in the future.

 

[fohdeesha]

Hi, I just got the Brocade ICX 6450-48 and it's working great so far, but I do have one problem. It is annoyingly loud, which puzzled me because the OP said that the one fan is supposed to be nearly silent, but mine sounds like a jet engine. Is there any set of commands I can do to throttle this thing down? My use case is very light. I don't use PoE and only have like 8x 1G devices, so most of the ports are empty. I may add 2x 10G in the near future, but that's still a ways off in the future.

when booting up, do the fans ever spin down a lot from the full speed they boot at? seen that with a 6450 before, fan control mosfet or whatever burnt out and fans stuck on full speed

 

[Whattteva]

Nope. It screams right from the get-go all the way.

I looked at the temperatures and the fan state, it's already at 1 and way below the threshold temperature. It's just loud by default, it seems.

 

[fohdeesha]

Nope. It screams right from the get-go all the way.

I looked at the temperatures and the fan state, it's already at 1 and way below the threshold temperature. It's just loud by default, it seems.

if it says it's sending the fan speed 1, but they're running at full speed (don't spin down after boot), it's definitely the mosfet/pwm fan circuit busted like a couple others I've seen here. if it's ebay you could try a return

 

[Whattteva]

if it says it's sending the fan speed 1, but they're running at full speed (don't spin down after boot), it's definitely the mosfet/pwm fan circuit busted like a couple others I've seen here. if it's ebay you could try a return

Oh man, that really sucks. I don't really want to return it cause I have to pay shipping and this thing is massive/heavy, so shipping is gonna be quite a bit.

 

[klui]

if it says it's sending the fan speed 1, but they're running at full speed (don't spin down after boot), it's definitely the mosfet/pwm fan circuit busted like a couple others I've seen here. if it's ebay you could try a return

I presume by the last sentence these mosfets near the connectors on the PCB and inside the fan cages?

 

[selta]

Hey folks,
Having an oddity and wanted to see if anyone else has run into this. A quick breakdown:
server - Ubuntu 22.04 - mellanox connectx-3, 40Gbps, connected to 1/2/1 via QSFP cable
Normally, 1/2/1 I have in tagged vlans 2, 50
switch - icx 6610-48P

Issue came up when I moved a bunch of services from an old server to this one, and began noticing packet loss when trying to communicate with the server only on vlan 2 (vlan 50 is, by design in this scenario, supposed to be unreachable). Roughly 7-10% of straight pings are lost, even just pinging from the ICX switch to the server(eg: ping 192.168.1.10 count 150 results in packet loss).

Doing a whole lot of troubleshooting, and noticed something. When I remove port 1/2/1 from vlan 50, everything is fine. Zero packet loss. No other network change necessary, just removing that vlan from the port. If I re-add it (vlan 50=> tagged ethernet 1/2/1) , immediately the packet loss starts up again.

Double checked my netplan on the server - there is a default route for vlan 2, as expected, and everything else is fine. For completness in testing, I removed the vlan 50 config from netplan, applied, and even rebooted. Even then, if I tag the port with vlan 50, the packet loss comes back? Double checked the usual suspects like mismatch MTU, speed, duplex, etc., and as far as I'm able to see, all the config is correct.

Checked for any errors on the server (with ifconfig and ethtool) and on the switch (with sh int et 1/21), but the interfaces both look perfectly clean. Zero errors of any kind on both sides.

I don't have a spare 40G card handy (other than an XL710, and well, we all know how that'll go). I just ordered another QSFP cable to rule that out, though the one I'm using is only ~2 months old. My next steps will be to change port on the connect-x and on the ICX to see if that helps, and if it does I'll of course let you all know.

For giggles, I created a new VLAN on the switch, vlan 101. I tagged 1/2/1 with that VLAN, and the packet loss is still present, just less, which makes even less sense.

I do have a spare 10G card I can drop in to test. An older server (also 22.04), on the same switch, but 10G only, tagged with the same VLANs, is not having the issue. So I'm really thinking something with the connectx or cable, but that doesn't explain why it goes away once I remove the vlan on the switchport, to me.

 

[Cirdane]

Hey all
Newbie here with a recently configured ICX6450 so apologies in advance if this has been asked many times.

I have everything up and running now, but I've been trying to set up VLAN's for different purposes and since the rest of my equipment except the switch is TP-link omada I've decide to use Omada Software controller (running in a docker) to config everything.

I've been following the guide to set everything up so the config is basically this:

vlan 1
router-interface ve 1
exit
interface ve 1
ip address 192.168.0.10/24
exit
write mem

And this is my setup in Omada:



I have also set up different WiFi's which correspond to these LAN's using VLAN's 1, 10, and 100.

However anything that tries to connect to the WiFi's that are set up to use VLAN 10 or VLAN 100 gets stuck on just "connecting" so obviously there's some config missing in the switch but I don't really know what to do here?

 

[itronin]

...
However anything that tries to connect to the WiFi's that are set up to use VLAN 10 or VLAN 100 gets stuck on just "connecting" so obviously there's some config missing in the switch but I don't really know what to do here?

If the config is as bare bones as you state then you have not set up in your switch for the other two vlans you have defined in your Omada WiFi: 10 and 100. you need to set those up in the switch. You'll need to tag the AP connected ports in your switch with 10 and 100. Not knowing anything about what Omada expects I suspect you'll keep vlan 1 untagged which means dual-mode on those ports otherwise if your AP's are statically configured for vlan and IP then you may simply need add vlan 1 as tagged on your AP connected ports.

 

[tubs-ffm]

Remote command to ICX fastiron switch possible?

Hello,
is there a simple way to place remote commands to an ICX fast iron switch via shell script or REST API? What I would like to achieve is to switch off and on PoE on specific ports of my ICX 7150 via home automation to shutdown PoE WiFi APs when not needed.

 

[kapone]

Remote command to ICX fastiron switch possible?

Hello,
is there a simple way to place remote commands to an ICX fast iron switch via shell script or REST API? What I would like to achieve is to switch off and on PoE on specific ports of my ICX 7150 via home automation to shutdown PoE WiFi APs when not needed.

ssh

 

[tubs-ffm]

ssh

Meanwhile I found out about RESTCONF, a possibility to read and set the config by xml or json formated input.

This looks easy to implement. Unfortunately I did not yet figure out how how to use. If someone could let me know the line to issue "no inline power" and "inline power" for a specific network port, let's say 1/1/1, would be great.

Edit:
I am getting close. I already can read the status. This line

curl -i -k -X "GET" https://192.168.x.y/restconf/data/openconfig-interfaces:interfaces/interface=ethernet%201%2F1%2F1/ethernet/poe/config/enabled -u user:password --insecure

will get me this output

{"icx-openconfig-if-poe-aug:enabled":true}

Now I only have to find out how to chenge the value.

 

[MannyLNJ]

Hello. I am not sure now if I ordered the right items. My home network is all 1GB products but I am slowly adding 2.5GB devices. Right now my PC and my OpnSense system both supoort 2.5G. I bought a Brocade FCX648S-HPOE 48 on Ebay along with a Brocade ES46625M-FLF-08 2x 10GB XFP Switch Modile. I know the fans may be loud but I have all my network gear in the basement and while I do sit near the shelves. I can move it to the other side of the basement if I have power ran. From what I understand if I have the right transceiver I can turn the switch interconnects in the back into 2.5G ports is that correct? If not what should I buy?

 

[klui]

Use the Restconf API guide at Using RUCKUS ICX RESTCONF API Technical Note | Technical Documents | Ruckus Wireless Support

You typically would use HTTP PATCH to modify a portion of the JSON. It's all in that TN. I would think remote ssh would be more straightforward.

 

[Mithril]

Anyone know the pinout for the EPS cable? I picked up An ICX6400-EPS1500 for cheap, but the cables are not cheap The connector is a standard computer power supply (20 pin). Looks like the EPS1500 effectively is in low power mode unless theres a cable connected so I can't even test what I purchased

Edit:[Found in thread!]