Celestica Questone 2 (D3030) NOS

[powerstroke]

Does anyone know of any OS's that support the Questone 2 (not 2A) D3030?

I can't seem to find any.

 

[klui]

I take it you received the switch? Does it have ONIE installed?

If it does you can issue onie-syseeprom and it will tell you the product name tso you could check if it's a D3030. If it is then it should work with BISDN. Their description isn't very clear as they mention both 2 and 2A (Celestica Questone 2 D3030 (Questone 2A)). If you're desperate it wouldn't hurt to join their Slack community and ask.

 

[powerstroke]

I take it you received the switch? Does it have ONIE installed?

If it does you can issue onie-syseeprom and it will tell you the product name tso you could check if it's a D3030. If it is then it should work with BISDN. Their description isn't very clear as they mention both 2 and 2A (Celestica Questone 2 D3030 (Questone 2A)). If you're desperate it wouldn't hurt to join their Slack community and ask.

Yes I got the switch. It has ONIE but that's it. I'll check that command result when I get home. It is definitely a D3030 2 (not 2a), which apparently someone else tried with BISDN and it did not work.

I heard someone getting it to work with Cumulus, but they needed a license for it to work.

I just need basic L2 switching, nothing fancy. I did see some similar models (not from Celestica) that have the same port config and say they're broadcom, so not sure if their NOS's would work?

Seems like I'm out of a luck and have a paperweight. Would be really nice if I could actually use the cool hardware it has.

 

[klui]

Could you share a link to these other switches?

 

[powerstroke]

Could you share a link to these other switches?

If you go here: Hardware Compatibility List

and search by ports (48x25G + 8x100G) several models come up, including:

QuantaMesh T4048-IX8

Intel C2558

BCM56873 (Trident 3)

48x25G + 8x100G

AMI 2.16.1242

master-201605171639

master

ONL Certified Gold

Feb-28-2018

AS7326-56X

Intel Xeon D-1518

BCM56873 (Trident3)

48x25G + 8x100G + 2x10G

None

2019.02

master

ONL Certified

Feb-07-2019

OCP Accepted

 

[oneplane]

If it is a Trident 3 and the port configuration isn't stored in the firmware, you might be able to run the SONiC for Seastone_2 since that is also x86 and Trident 3. The images are all the same for each ASIC and CPU combination, but I haven't looked into the SONiC architecture to find out how it knows the switch topology. Maybe it requires in-firmware mapping files.

 

[powerstroke]

If it is a Trident 3 and the port configuration isn't stored in the firmware, you might be able to run the SONiC for Seastone_2 since that is also x86 and Trident 3. The images are all the same for each ASIC and CPU combination, but I haven't looked into the SONiC architecture to find out how it knows the switch topology. Maybe it requires in-firmware mapping files.

Just tried sonic-broadcom and ONIE said it was the wrong ASIC.

 

[klui]

Whitebox NOSes use small kernel modules that have the platform/architecture's name per the attributes in the FRU/syseeprom. While the ASIC is the same the interface from user-land would be different--though not necessary unique--between each model. I suppose one could always copy a switch's modules and rename them to the intended target but I've never tried that.

 

[powerstroke]

So I found out it's identifying itself as x86_64_cel_questone_2_r0

I'm not even sure where to get started with this. I wish there was an OS I could just install and be done with it. I may have to just return the switch and buy something else. Such a shame.

Apparently these used to be Plexxi switches before HPE bought them, and I'm guessing there are versions of their NOS that work, but I have no idea where I'd find archives like that.

 

[klui]

I never looked deeper into Plexxi stuff but it looks like the NOS installed in the switch might require a software component behind a paywall.