I would never
That said, the vdxs are first gen 10gbase-t phy, they take a comical amount of power and heat. Also you have to deal with NOS
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That said, the vdxs are first gen 10gbase-t phy, they take a comical amount of power and heat. Also you have to deal with NOS
Yeah yeah that's for sure. It's just an option when they're so cheap that it simply doesn't matter, compared with alternatives like the 7050TX (which probably also has the same first gen 10GBase-T PHYs)
I never got to properly say thank you for this answer!
Here are some follow-up questions if I were to stack 3x 6450 switches:
1) Can one of the stacking links be aggregated while the others are not?
2) If I stack in a non-aggregated ring config, will that increase the overall bandwidth capacity of the network or just provide redundancy? Say if one single 10G connection saturates one link, can other traffic go through the redundant path?
Hello,
I have a brocade 6450 48P switch that i have had for about a year and a half now running perfectly. I was doing some troubleshooting on my network and went to reload the switch. Everything came back up except my POE cameras. I noticed that it was no longer negotiating. Reloaded again and went into Inline power, attempted to turn it off and on with no luck. I noticed that the firmware stated 0.00, I paniced a little and went to reload the POE firmware, first try failed. Reloaed and SSH'd back in and then was able to successfully load the POE firmware back, installed 100%, reloaded. Came back in and saw version 2.10. Cameras still weren't coming back on, reloaded the GUI and the firmware went 0.00 again. Am I SOL with POE now? Typing "Show Chassis" shows "Power supply 1 (NA - AC - PoE) present, status ok"/
Anything else I can try or is it dead?
Edit: I loaded the firmware, it went through a reload, firmware still shows present, everything shows as "ok" from what I can tell. But it still won't negotiate with my cameras.
I have a brocade 6450 48P switch that i have had for about a year and a half now running perfectly. I was doing some troubleshooting on my network and went to reload the switch. Everything came back up except my POE cameras. I noticed that it was no longer negotiating. Reloaded again and went into Inline power, attempted to turn it off and on with no luck. I noticed that the firmware stated 0.00, I paniced a little and went to reload the POE firmware, first try failed. Reloaed and SSH'd back in and then was able to successfully load the POE firmware back, installed 100%, reloaded. Came back in and saw version 2.10. Cameras still weren't coming back on, reloaded the GUI and the firmware went 0.00 again. Am I SOL with POE now? Typing "Show Chassis" shows "Power supply 1 (NA - AC - PoE) present, status ok"/
Anything else I can try or is it dead?
Edit: I loaded the firmware, it went through a reload, firmware still shows present, everything shows as "ok" from what I can tell. But it still won't negotiate with my cameras.
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I had saved the configuration. I have also attempted to enable and disable inline power on all the ports several times. I can see that the ports are on in the default configuration (all thats ever been needed) with the admin State being ON but the Operation State OFF. 74000 out of 74000 mwatts are avail. It just refuses to recognize that POE devices are plugged into it.
I don't have any suggestions unfortunately. I just want to say that if it turns out to be a hardware failure, it is possible that the POE power supply was on it's last legs and rebooting the switch caused it to kick the bucket for good.
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I've had many issues with the gui properly executing commands. Wanna make sure you used the cli (serial or ssh) versus the web shitterface.
Hello and thanks for the access. This is my first post here and of course there is a reason. I picked up a 6450 from Ebay. It was set back to factory settings. It took me a day or two to get things figured out. I know very little about networking Ill say that right off the bat. My goal is to get as much of my network wired as possible hence the 48 port switch. Long story short, I went through the guide that was posted at the beginning of this topic. Thanks for making the guide it was pretty much idiot proof. Anyway, things went fine until I went to install the license. I never had any license installed. When I went through the process, it did not quite go like the guide said it would. My question is this, in the Gui it looks like all 4 10G ports are active. Is there a way to check in the cli to ensure it? In the GUI they do say 10G full now....sorry to rattle on...
thx
thx
| show interface ethernet 1/2/3 |
On my 6610, it's the 4th line down, which is the Configured speed.
Ok. I have done a dumb thing on my ICX6610.
I changed the speed on one of my 10g ports (1/3/1) to 1g. When I try to set the port back to 10g, I'm getting the message:
PoD: No license present for port 1/3/1
What should I do? I don't want to impact all of the other 10g ports.
FYI. The show license command shows the POD license as active.
I changed the speed on one of my 10g ports (1/3/1) to 1g. When I try to set the port back to 10g, I'm getting the message:
PoD: No license present for port 1/3/1
What should I do? I don't want to impact all of the other 10g ports.
FYI. The show license command shows the POD license as active.
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I was hoping I did not have to go through the steps of re-applying the license. In fact I thought this unit came loaded with a license already.ICX6610 Licensing - Fohdeesha Docs
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Here is the results of the show license command:
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I have basically zero networking experience, but a desire to learn.
I purchased a Brocade ICX6450P and cannot seem to get it up and running. I've completed the following:
I purchased a Brocade ICX6450P and cannot seem to get it up and running. I've completed the following:
- Downloaded Fohdessha's Master ZIP
- Turned off Windows firewall and restarted
- Opened Tftpd64, confirmed it was set the the correct folder, and selected the appropriate network card
- Connected to the console port and attempted to use PuTTy
- Used an available IP address for the switch and the IP address from the computer
- I can get to the boot prompt and changed the IP address, but it always fails to download the bin files with "return count exceeded, try again"
Thank you for the reply! Just to clarify, I should ping the switch and get what for a result?