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

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BossHoss

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when you make any changes that you want to save yes do a wr mem and if you mess up just delete the startup config and reload the switch and go again, trial and error method if you want.
Just to make sure I'm not misunderstanding you're telling me worst case scenario is I have to redo the things I've already done, I can't really do any harm like locking myself out completely? Essentially like experimenting with a Raspberry pi.
 

JD7

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i stopped after the screenshot above and just let it sit. wasnt sure if i should try unplugging and restarting or what. no i didnt do a wr mem command. had no idea i should have. when it said password was modified successfully for super, i thought i was good to go.
ok so if you want to try your username and password its been a minute for me but I dont think it starts right away if your connected with the console cable I think you either need to reload but i would do a wr mem first before doing that.
 

JD7

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Just to make sure I'm not misunderstanding you're telling me worst case scenario is I have to redo the things I've already done, I can't really do any harm like locking myself out completely? Essentially like experimenting with a Raspberry pi.
Correct if you lock yourself out just go back into the bootloader and delete the startup config or just reload the firmware from there and start over.
 

TonyArrr

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Those IPs are on different subnets.
Well, unless his network is a /8 or /16 or something ;)

didnt take long for me to hit another snag. after entering default credentials and creating new ones it started telling me no password was created when i got to the initial config stage of entering "enable"View attachment 36504
So that’s saying you haven’t set a password to be required to run `enable`
The password you set for the user on the switch, “Super”, will still be there and happy, and you will be asked for that password whenever you log in via the console cable or SSH.

You can additionally set an additional password that is requested whenever you run `enable`, which adds a little extra protection to your configuration, so you really don’t need to worry about that message in a homelab setting
 

BossHoss

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i started fresh when i got up today and now im getting hung up at this part
Now we need to assign that virtual interface an address. Choose an IP that is unused in your subnet, and out of your DHCP server range (ping it first to be sure it's unused):
i keep getting this "incomplete command" that ip should work right? when i ping it i get nothing

C:\Windows\System32>ping 10.0.0.202

Pinging 10.0.0.202 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 10.0.0.42: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 10.0.0.42: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 10.0.0.42: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 10.0.0.42: Destination host unreachable.

Ping statistics for 10.0.0.202:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
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BossHoss

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Did you move the network cable from the management port to one of the regular switchports?
no that is 2 steps ahead in the directions im looking at. in the fohdeesha.com/docs/icx7250.html

are others following other instructions? i seem to always be in a different place than others expect when im going in this order.
 

BossHoss

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that got me through that step and into the step saying to move ethernet to normal port and enter next line and i get an error code 5. the instructions dont say to but im wondering if i should have also switched the pc ip back to its normal ip at this time instead of the example one.

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frameshift18

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Yes now your tftp server needs to be in the same ip range and subnet as the vif you just set in the previous step. So they can talk.

In other words put your tftp machine back to how you normally have it with a 10.0.0.x ip and they should be able to talk.
 
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jei

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are others following other instructions? i seem to always be in a different place than others expect when im going in this order.
Same instructions. But most starting on this have basic understanding of IPv4 networking. It's a bit of a deep dive without prior knowledge.
 

BossHoss

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ok so i got through the updating and licensing,
at what point can i disconnect the serial cable and configure through web interface?
 
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ProxmoxProphet

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why are you defining the next-hop in all your routes as an interface and not as the next-hop IP of whatever router you intend for the routes to hit? also make sure you have ipv6 enable on all your ve interfaces. and make sure you're running the latest 8095 codetrain at least
I was specifying the interface in my ipv6 default route because it points to a link-local IP, and I wanted to specify it's a link-local IP on that interface, also I am on 8095.
I was playing around with it a bit more and I found the solution! When I enabled ipv6 unicast-routing globally, it automatically configures the switch to send router advertisements on all interfaces

So i ran

conf t
int ve 100
ipv6 nd suppress-ra

under my ve 100 interface, and now the problem I had with hosts not being able to communicate with other hosts over IPv6 is solved, it works now. I'm not sure why this solves it though
 

Vesalius

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ok so i got through the updating and licensing,
at what point can i disconnect the serial cable and configure through web interface?
Web interface is not good (convoluted, poorly played out, has many options hidden or options not applicable to a specific switch) or reliable and really should not be counted on. Also little to no support can be found online from the company or here/reddit type users.

But you should be able to get to the point where you can ssh into the switch from a computer on the network and disconnect the serial cable.
 

BoGs

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Web interface is not good (convoluted, poorly played out, has many options hidden or options not applicable to a specific switch) or reliable and really should not be counted on. Also little to no support can be found online from the company or here/reddit type users.

But you should be able to get to the point where you can ssh into the switch from a computer on the network and disconnect the serial cable.
This was mentioned, this is not an easyish switch. If all you want a L2 with SFP+ modules you are set and online. If you are looking for more advanced stuff you can read the documents in the zip or brocade has them online on what you want to do.

If you are looking for an easy UI a Unifi might be better but that is barely a L2+ switch, and I am trying to rip that crap out as the default support is "reset the switch" and coincidentally wipe out all vlan mapping and controller etc.
 

86turbodsl

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poe board is bad, but it will still boot with it installed. the 6610s just take a while to boot
Got a replacement 6610 in and updated everything thru the guide. Works perfectly and got my first 10Gb connection on it. Thanks so much for this awesome resource fohdeesha!
 
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BossHoss

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Default Route & DNS
If you want your switch to be able to contact NTP servers for time synchronization, remote SNMP servers, etc, we need to give the switch a default route and a DNS server. Replace the IP with the IP of your gateway/router/etc. Assuming you are still at the configure terminal level:

ip dns server-address 192.168.1.1
ip route 0.0.0.0/0 192.168.1.1
at this point if my default gateway from isp is set to 10.0.0.1, the 7250 set to 10.0.0.202/24 my primary dns is set to 75.75.75.75
how would i want to enter that?

ip dns server-address 10.0.0.1
ip route 10.0.0.202/24 10.0.0.1
?
 

jei

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Tested the power consumption of a couple of 40Gb modules mentioned in this thread.

PMD-USB measures only the PCIE slot and does not account for PSU losses before it.

The modules were tested without active link / load but had LC UPC Duplex OM3 -cable physically connected.

Gear used:
- ElmorLabs PMD-USB Power Measurement Board
- ElmorLabs PMD-AD PCIE Power Measurement Board
- Supermicro X10SLL-F booted into Ubuntu 24.04 installation media desktop

NICs tested:
- Mellanox ConnectX-4 EN 50GbE single-port QSFP28 (MCX413A-GCAT)
- Intel X710-DA2 (mfg 10/2022)

Results:
VoltageCurrentPower
MCX413A-GCAT only11.94 V0.5 A5.97 W
MCX413A-GCAT with KAIAM XQX250211.94 V0.6 A7.164 W
MCX413A-GCAT with Juniper JNP-QSFP-40G-LX411.93 V0.9 A10.737 W
Intel X710-DA2 only12 V0.1 A1.2 W
Chelsio T580-LP-CR only11.95 V0.8 A9.56 W
Intel X710-T2L only12 V0.2 A2.4 W
Intel X710-T2L with 1x 10Gb copper connected11.98 V0.3 A3.594 W

edit: Added Intel X710-DA2
edit: Added Chelsio T580-LP-CR, Intel X710-T2L
Added Intel X710-DA2, Chelsio T580-LP-CR, Intel X710-T2L
 

Craig Curtin

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Hey Guys,

Need to make some remote changes to a pair of 6450s that are joined by a single 10GB link.

They are remote to me and no on onsite has a lot of technical ability (maybe as far as pull a power cord etc) They are being used in a Ski lodge which is about 6 hours drive away from me.

They have essentially been setup as the default single vlan (1) with all ports in that VLAN (it was migrated from some older switches and they thought it was simplest to just duplicate the same setup)

We now wish to implement VLANs - the first part of which will be to put both the 10GB ports (at each end) into a new VLAN and have VLAN 1 as dual mode on this interface

Is there a batch way of sending commands to the switches - i have remote access to both - but the PC i am on is only connected to a single switch - so i need to be able to send commands in a batch to the "far" switch and have them execute and then configure the switch the PC is connected to to recognize the new dual mode port

I do have a PC on the 2nd switch - but it is only accessible by jumping across the 10GB link

SO need to attach to it first (windows) - then SSH into the switch, send the batch commands and have them complete and then do the same on the 1st switch from another PC

Ideas ?

Craig