Cheap Interesting Chinese 4x2.5g, 2x10G switch, (but also problems with DACs)

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networkguy

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Does anyone have any experience of changing the management VLAN on these switches? Whilst you can set the IP of the switch into the subnet you desire, the switch is not accessible unless you are plugged into a port in VLAN1. I don't really want VLAN 1 hanging around, but I can't see any other way to avoid that with this.
 

Don Demetrio

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Well these switches are with basic functions and you cannot change the management VLAN. Anyway I don't see real drawback to use it. For example I have connected this switch to Aruba and my management vlan is 99 there. On the port of the Aruba I have all tagged vlans I need and the vlan 99 is untagged (PVID) so it connects with vlan1 (untagged, PVID) on the trunk port of the chinese switch. In Cisco terminology this is called 'native vlan' which is the same as PVID so you can have different internal vlan mapping on different devices and interconnect them. Btw using vlan1 for management is quite standard and also the Aruba switch I have came preconfigured that way.
 
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SuphaFly

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Did you flash the "ZX-SWTG124AS" firmware on your 4+2 switch? Then I believe it should've worked. I accidentally flashed the 8+1 firmware on my 4+2 port switch... Bricked..
I had to remove the SPI flash chip and reflash it with a complete image dump from a 4+2 switch to fix it.
Hi. I've done just that (Also bricked my switch ) Any idea how to change the MAC address?? I want to use the "cloned" switch on the same network and they are conflicting.
Thank you in advance.
 
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SuphaFly

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Hi. I've done just that (Also bricked my switch ) Any idea how to change the MAC address?? I want to use the "cloned" switch on the same network and they are conflicting.
Thank you in advance.
Well.
I've found out to change the mac address so I'm leaving the info here if anyone needs it.

Someone (way smarter then me)found some hidden factory links and posted to Github and @blunden linked it here.
You have to enter your switch's address and add /ftdft.cgi at the end (192.168.0.13/ftdft.cgi in my case) and you can change it from there.
I hope this is useful to someone if they mess with one of these switches and bricks it.
 

N1cky

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Well.
I've found out to change the mac address so I'm leaving the info here if anyone needs it.

Someone (way smarter then me)found some hidden factory links and posted to Github and @blunden linked it here.
You have to enter your switch's address and add /ftdft.cgi at the end (192.168.0.13/ftdft.cgi in my case) and you can change it from there.
I hope this is useful to someone if they mess with one of these switches and bricks it.
This is really useful. I've unticked the Chinese language box and now when I log in it's in English only. Oh, and don't forget to save within the "Tools" tab, otherwise when you reboot the switch it will go back to the default settings.
 
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giver3

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Hi.

Continuing with my struggle to bring the switch back to life (after damaging the flesh chip during desoldering).
I have purchased the flash chips (FM25Q16A, SOP8-208mil).
I have programmed the flesh memory.
After soldering the chip the swich starts to boot up.
A log appears until: "#############Begin to set the web mode". At this point the swich resets, starts to boot from the beginning and so resets over and over.
The program is uploaded correctly (from another working switch).
I suppose there is a UNIQUE ID check (instruction: 4Bh) which differs and for this the program resets.
I even copied the data from the security section (instruction: 48h)
Chuba that the data from the protection section is somehow linked to the UNIQUE ID

Maybe someone has some ideas what to do with this next.

Thanks for the previous suggestions
 
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Halfwalker

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I got one of these - it came with 1.9 firmware. Possibly a return via Amazon ? In any case, I can't change Flow-Control for any port or group of ports.
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Set it to ON and Apply, doesn't stick. I think it's kind of necessary though ...

As a test I have two systems, backup (2.5G port 4) and bondi2 (10G port 5). Running iperf3 from backup to bondi2 works fine, no retries. But running from bondi2 to backup, tons of retries

❯ iperf3 -c backup.local
Connecting to host backup.local, port 5201
[ 5] local 192.168.2.115 port 35044 connected to 192.168.2.119 port 5201
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr Cwnd
[ 5] 0.00-1.00 sec 172 MBytes 1.45 Gbits/sec 1647 52.3 KBytes
[ 5] 1.00-2.00 sec 173 MBytes 1.45 Gbits/sec 1727 79.2 KBytes
[ 5] 2.00-3.00 sec 173 MBytes 1.45 Gbits/sec 1565 62.2 KBytes
[ 5] 3.00-4.00 sec 174 MBytes 1.46 Gbits/sec 1547 58.0 KBytes
[ 5] 4.00-5.00 sec 173 MBytes 1.45 Gbits/sec 1555 43.8 KBytes
[ 5] 5.00-6.00 sec 172 MBytes 1.45 Gbits/sec 1753 48.1 KBytes
[ 5] 6.00-7.00 sec 173 MBytes 1.45 Gbits/sec 1546 58.0 KBytes
[ 5] 7.00-8.00 sec 173 MBytes 1.45 Gbits/sec 1464 58.0 KBytes
[ 5] 8.00-9.00 sec 172 MBytes 1.45 Gbits/sec 1683 62.2 KBytes
[ 5] 9.00-10.00 sec 173 MBytes 1.45 Gbits/sec 1710 52.3 KBytes
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[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 1.69 GBytes 1.45 Gbits/sec 16197 sender
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 1.69 GBytes 1.45 Gbits/sec receiver


That's indicative of the 10G side just shoveling packets down the pipe to the 2.5G side, which can't handle the rate.
 

prdtabim

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The interface is very bad designed.
Just click in the port number then change flow control and apply. I tested here and works.
 

Halfwalker

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I'm a dummy. The pulldown reverts of Off, but the config table below shows that flow-control was turned on. Sheesh :rolleyes: With it turned on performance was much better, still retries but not the levels of before

❯ iperf3 -c backup.local
Connecting to host backup.local, port 5201
[ 5] local 192.168.2.115 port 38750 connected to 192.168.2.119 port 5201
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr Cwnd
[ 5] 0.00-1.00 sec 177 MBytes 1.48 Gbits/sec 25 513 KBytes
[ 5] 1.00-2.00 sec 175 MBytes 1.47 Gbits/sec 5 587 KBytes
[ 5] 2.00-3.00 sec 174 MBytes 1.46 Gbits/sec 4 496 KBytes
[ 5] 3.00-4.00 sec 174 MBytes 1.46 Gbits/sec 1 576 KBytes
[ 5] 4.00-5.00 sec 174 MBytes 1.46 Gbits/sec 4 482 KBytes
[ 5] 5.00-6.00 sec 174 MBytes 1.46 Gbits/sec 1 560 KBytes
[ 5] 6.00-7.00 sec 174 MBytes 1.46 Gbits/sec 6 461 KBytes
[ 5] 7.00-8.00 sec 174 MBytes 1.46 Gbits/sec 1 554 KBytes
[ 5] 8.00-9.00 sec 175 MBytes 1.47 Gbits/sec 6 460 KBytes
[ 5] 9.00-10.00 sec 174 MBytes 1.46 Gbits/sec 1 549 KBytes
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[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 1.70 GBytes 1.46 Gbits/sec 54 sender
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 1.70 GBytes 1.46 Gbits/sec receiver
 

motorsense

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Hello,
I have bought two of the ZX-SWTG124AS. I have 2 additional VLAN. Tagged are no problem and all work corectly. I configure One Port (Port4) as untaggt VLAN10 and then I have no connection at this Port. VLAN10 works tagged great with my Guest Unifi between these switches. Sorry for my bad english

VLANVLAN NameMember PortsTagged PortsUntagged PortsDelete
11-3,5-6-1-3,5-6
10Gast1-2,41-24
20IOT1-21-2-

Do I have a mistaken thinking?
 

kong

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Hello,
I have bought two of the ZX-SWTG124AS. I have 2 additional VLAN. Tagged are no problem and all work corectly. I configure One Port (Port4) as untaggt VLAN10 and then I have no connection at this Port. VLAN10 works tagged great with my Guest Unifi between these switches. Sorry for my bad english

VLANVLAN NameMember PortsTagged PortsUntagged PortsDelete
11-3,5-6-1-3,5-6
10Gast1-2,41-24
20IOT1-21-2-

Do I have a mistaken thinking?
Did you set VLAN ID on 802.1Q VID-page too?
 

Scorpio

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Hi all, I think the v1.9.1 firmware for the HORACO switch is already out (model ZX-SWTGW218AS)
I just ordered this switch and this was part of the automated messages with the seller.
This is for the 8-port model, not sure if it will work with the 4-port.

Here is the direct link as well: https://cdn.shoplazza.com/8b589a2df28a47bb7c255e3c6a56764b.zip

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UWAGA!
192.168.2.231
To Mikrotik, nie można się zalogować!!

Przełącznik PADŁ!! RIP
 
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abirkill

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Just in case it saves anyone else some time, my Mokerlink 2G04210GSMX (4x2.5G, 1x10G SFP+, 1x10G RJ45), hardware version HS72_V1.04, firmware V1.8, has a bug with the IGMP Snooping functionality.

It works correctly for a couple of weeks or so, and then gets stuck and shows no entries in the IGMP table, which means anything connected to the switch won't get multicast traffic from other ports. Rebooting the switch immediately fixes it, multicast groups show up in the IGMP table and traffic starts flowing correctly.

I haven't tried upgrading the switch with the 1.9/1.91 firmware (which Mokerlink haven't published anyway), as I don't have much multicast traffic I just disabled the IGMP Snooping function so that any incoming multicast traffic goes to all ports. But just a warning for anyone who does have a lot of multicast traffic that the snooping function appears unstable, at least for me.
 

kuki68ster

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Hello guys, I bought the switch ZX-SWTG124AS and I am using it on my home network, but I have a question, how safe is to use this?

Like, has anyone done a review of the code to see if everything is safe? No open backdoors, etc?
 

prdtabim

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Hello guys, I bought the switch ZX-SWTG124AS and I am using it on my home network, but I have a question, how safe is to use this?

Like, has anyone done a review of the code to see if everything is safe? No open backdoors, etc?
It's a switch it doesn't need tcp to work in many functions. Just do not configure the gateway at the switch or block the traffic coming from the ip of the switch to the internet.
If you go to filter hardware based on the manufacturer origin, you will en empty hands.