Anyone else have this switch?
I recently acquired a Celestica Questone 2A D3030. It's a 48x 25Gbe with 8x 100Gbe ports. Includes a management port, console serial port and a USB port in the back for access. It's of more recent manufacture (July of 2022, at least for the one I got) and is Denverton based system.
I was quite wary about getting this switch at first because I couldn't find any usable NOS. SONiC, as awful as it may be for every day use, does work reasonably well for L2 without any fiddling of configuration and is affordable for an enthusiast like me (aka "free".) Officially, this particular switch is not on a supported list on the SONiC website... but there's an official supported NOS called BISDN Linux.
Configuration isn't as nice as using Aristas, but is at least preferable over SONiC in my opinion. Essentially, it relies on Linux iproute2 with systemctl for persisting configuration. If you're familiar with configuring linux/freebsd as a router/firewall, you'll feel right at home. I've gotten L2 line-rate switching to work across both 25Gbe and 100Gbe interfaces. It's kind of finicky with transceivers though, but at least the cheap ebay Intel CWDM4 modules work reliably. I've gotten my hands on some Huawei 25G SFP28 modules, they're on my test todo list.
L3 switching configuration does seem to work as well. I haven't done traffic test with L3 routing, but at least configuration-wise BGP and OSPF protocols makes the switch visible to other routers...
Overall, pretty nice switch. It's done everything I've asked of it so far. Wish I could get its fan speed to wind down a bit to increase the WAF, but I guess I can't have everything in life.
onlpdump gets me this info:
System Information: = {
Product Name: D3030
Part Number: R1156-F9007-01
Serial Number: D3030F2B[redacted]
MAC: 00:e0:ec:f4:0d:10
MAC Range: 84
Manufacturer: Celestica
Manufacture Date: 07/30/2022 00:21:47
Vendor: Celestica
Platform Name: Denverton
Device Version: 3
Label Revision: Questone-IIA
Country Code: THA
Diag Version: 1.1.19
Service Tag: LB
ONIE Version: 2020.05.0.0.1
}
I recently acquired a Celestica Questone 2A D3030. It's a 48x 25Gbe with 8x 100Gbe ports. Includes a management port, console serial port and a USB port in the back for access. It's of more recent manufacture (July of 2022, at least for the one I got) and is Denverton based system.
I was quite wary about getting this switch at first because I couldn't find any usable NOS. SONiC, as awful as it may be for every day use, does work reasonably well for L2 without any fiddling of configuration and is affordable for an enthusiast like me (aka "free".) Officially, this particular switch is not on a supported list on the SONiC website... but there's an official supported NOS called BISDN Linux.
Configuration isn't as nice as using Aristas, but is at least preferable over SONiC in my opinion. Essentially, it relies on Linux iproute2 with systemctl for persisting configuration. If you're familiar with configuring linux/freebsd as a router/firewall, you'll feel right at home. I've gotten L2 line-rate switching to work across both 25Gbe and 100Gbe interfaces. It's kind of finicky with transceivers though, but at least the cheap ebay Intel CWDM4 modules work reliably. I've gotten my hands on some Huawei 25G SFP28 modules, they're on my test todo list.
L3 switching configuration does seem to work as well. I haven't done traffic test with L3 routing, but at least configuration-wise BGP and OSPF protocols makes the switch visible to other routers...
Overall, pretty nice switch. It's done everything I've asked of it so far. Wish I could get its fan speed to wind down a bit to increase the WAF, but I guess I can't have everything in life.
onlpdump gets me this info:
System Information: = {
Product Name: D3030
Part Number: R1156-F9007-01
Serial Number: D3030F2B[redacted]
MAC: 00:e0:ec:f4:0d:10
MAC Range: 84
Manufacturer: Celestica
Manufacture Date: 07/30/2022 00:21:47
Vendor: Celestica
Platform Name: Denverton
Device Version: 3
Label Revision: Questone-IIA
Country Code: THA
Diag Version: 1.1.19
Service Tag: LB
ONIE Version: 2020.05.0.0.1
}
