Brocade ICX Series (cheap & powerful 10gbE/40gbE switching)
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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.
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.
Well, unless his network is a /8 or /16 or something
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
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.
You are missing the CIDR suffix. The /24 (in your case). Hence the incomplete command error.
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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.
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.
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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Same instructions. But most starting on this have basic understanding of IPv4 networking. It's a bit of a deep dive without prior knowledge.
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
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.
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!
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
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