Yes, it does. Just follow the guide.Hi ! This is AMAZING! Could anyone confirm if this method still works to enable licensing of the 10 Gigabit SFP+ ports on the switch for the Brocade ICX6610. Thanks in advance
Your post is very hard to read without "proper" formattingHello sorry I'm late to the forum here as I am just getting into the home network and picked up an ICX-7450-24P off eBay for about 90 bucks as a cheap POE starter switch with some 40GbE links, I discovered this thread and have noticed most of the thread is about the ICX-6xxx's I was curious if anyone had any extensive knowledge of available DACs I don't have any long runs or anything like that most of the switches 10GbE and 40GbE connections are all in-rack so I would prefer to use DACs maybe somebody can convince me that I shouldn't be worried about that. with that said I have a hard time figuring out the cabling I need to make my runs work I have a Dell R640 I picked up and am probably going to try and get a 40GbE connection on it as well as an OPNsense custom-built router I made with a Supermicro A2SDI-TP8F 12C I'm just kinda at a loss as to what kind of DACs if any exist would suffice for 3 different types of systems, I would like to be able to track link speeds and DAC temps in the switch as mentioned by the OP if you have official brocade optics, but idk if its possible what I'm asking for idk how picky these ports will be any insight would be greatly appreciated.
there's no reason to run the l2-only firmwareI hope someone can help me decide if I need L2 or L3 for a Brocade ICX-6450-48P.
I followed fohdeesha's guide (thank you!) and used the router firmware. I'm wondering if it is necessary.
I plan on doing the following:
Any thoughts on L2 switch firmware versus L3 router firmware in this use case? I am under the assumption that anything that can be done with L2 can be done with L3 but admittedly I'm not positive that is the case or there may be strings attached.
- Stacking two 6450 POE models
- Using OPNsense or pfSense as firewall/router.
- Utilizing "router on a stick" unless that isn't advisable where I'll have one cable from the firewall/router into the Brocade 6450 and then leverage VLAN's to organize traffic. I'll simply tag one single Brocade port (1/2/3 or 1/1/2 for example) and then come off of the firewall/router into that. Then untag particular ranges of ports according to VLAN needs (VLAN 10 using 1/1/3 - 1/1/10, VLAN 20 using 1/1/11 - 1/1/15 for example).
- I do not expect large file transfers very often. I'm looking for the easiest to manage while also maintaining speed/throughput.
It's my opinion that without actively cooling the ASIC chips (and also probably the QSFP cages) there is no reasonable way to make it silent enough. Because these switches are designed to be cooled simply by constantly moving significant amounts of air through the whole case, including the ASIC's which only have passive heat spreaders. This requires rear mounted 40mm fans that spin at tens of thousands of RPM. It is impossible to make that silent.Hi guys, I'm 6 years late to the party I know, but just bought a 7250-48p (I needed a switch with at least 6 sfp+ ports plus at least 4 PoE+ rj45 ports, and I got the 7250 for £65 + post). So far everything is good, managed to work out their quirky (I come from a cisco background) vlan interpretation. But my question now is sound. Can anyone recommend me some quieter fans?
Many thanks in advance!
But only on two models:There IS a fanless command in Fastiron that disabled the Fans completly If you use less than 150w for Poe and No 2.5gbe
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@tlloyd is asking for a 7250.Fanless mode is supported only on ICX 7150-24P and ICX 7150-48P devices.
That's not correct.But only on two models:
Oh, sorry. So other 7150 can run in fanless mode but are not supported.That's not correct.
From the 7150 family it is only supported for two models (the 1GBE switches), the not supported 7150 switches are multi Gig ethernet (2.5GBE) like 7150-48ZP
Hi guys, I'm 6 years late to the party I know, but just bought a 7250-48p (I needed a switch with at least 6 sfp+ ports plus at least 4 PoE+ rj45 ports, and I got the 7250 for £65 + post). So far everything is good, managed to work out their quirky (I come from a cisco background) vlan interpretation. But my question now is sound. Can anyone recommend me some quieter fans?
Many thanks in advance!