How do I get the bin file?
I think the S light does blink all the time, but would need to confirm tomorrow.
Horaco 2.5GbE Managed Switch (8 x 2.5GbE + 1 10Gb SFP+)
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I think the S light does blink all the time, but would need to confirm tomorrow.
it took 2 days off figuring every thing out. and a lot, really a LOT off flashing
the short awnser is im f*cked. the switch is bricked. it is a chip problem. i need to order a new one 2 euro for 10 pieces. and find someone to solder them on. ( i dont like micro soldering ) a phone repair on the corner can do that for me,
i do need someone to lift the KEEPLINK firmware v100 from their router. the 8 x 2.5 1 x 10 mananged and poe version. or any 8 poort at this point. ( poe is hardwired doesnt need software to work )
thats how it sits in the corner at the moment.
the long story is
i got an 232 board. connected the rt tx and gnd pins to the pins in the router.
openend putty at com3 57600 baud and plugged in the router
tekst starts scrolling. and its the bootloader. till the line open web dumb. and then it doesnt start the web. but restarts the bootloader. over and over. pressing esc.. ctrl alt esc. and ctrl alt and [ doesnt work. but ctrl alt and [ , and holding it. lets it run till the mac adres line. at that point it stops scolling and the connection light on the switch commes back on . at that point the switch was accecsable at 192.168.1.1 ( my original )
and i can upload new firmware. but after reboot. same boot loop.
a few things i notised.
with serial connected when disconnect the usb line. the board stil has power. ( strange only rx tx and gnd connected )
the light stayed on.
so after flashing. i disconnected the power. the serial connection. and disconnected the internal powersource ( the light was on for 3 min after i pulled the power cord. so i geuss some VERY heavy cappasateurs. normal is like 10 20 sec all power off and dissapated
after the 1.9 still had the bootloop i thought to myself f*ck it. its bricked anyway. so. i downloaded all the bin files from this forum.
and try every single one. also the 4+1. i flashed them all to test, even googled bin files 8 + 1 router and flashed those.
even the l3 routers. also the 12+4 8+4 8+2 so basicly ANY bin file i could find. close enough
strange enough. the didnt even give that mutch errors durring boot.
because unmananged normaly just work, nobody uploads firmware. i would like to test it though. unmanaged is beter then bricked.
my old switch i connected it, and it just worked for 5 years. this managed sh*t, well. i think i know why the good brands cost 500 euro.
if a 5 cent chip crashed the entire switch..... that sucks.
12mb 10 mb and 6mb and all bin files i could find
i didnt get a fault code or errror durring flashing.
some firmware flashed and then the ip jumped. i found 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.168 192.168.1.199 as flash login ( funny is. in putty you can see 192.168.0.10 as login site )
watching the boot in putty. i didnt see very strange errors with the boot. it just kept rebooting after the load web line.
all the other brands. some just booted. with errors but still all gave a boot loop.
the one thing that bugs me is that 1 bin file for a 4 + 1 switch ( this forum ) acually made the S light burn in stead off blink. it look fine. but the bootloop still looped. all the other bin files all kept mij S light blinking.
the S light blinks at same speed as the wrightspeed when flashing. so my logic is that the blink is the acces to flashrom. loop = blink. normal = burn.
after all this my conculsion on my keeplink is : the flash chip is broken. thats the problem. not so mutch the firmware.
i need to order one and resolder it. reflash it. and i think it will work. the poe is hardwired so that always works. so managed firmware is fine.
i installed linux on a old laptop. and wil try to reverse the bin firmware. see if there is someway to get a linux shell in the router going. or something we can change. because there is 0 support from manufactuar. no updates. it is just sell the stuff. and forget the customer.
nothing is documented. the bord isnt online. no specs. you can google the chips. but also not all off them.
but i would need to talk to someone with a bit more knowhow.
this and the program : asprogrammer
IF the s light blinks. thats not a good sign. check after a week if you can still login the web gui ( 192.168.1.1 or what you changed it in to )
I have several of the Keeplink switches, mostly KP-9000-9XHPML-X and the S light has always blinked on them all. They're working fine.
I have a few of these and have been using them for a couple of weeks. I did try LACP yesterday with one but it was to a restore of my Opnsense firewall on some spare hardware, so I may have had it configured badly. But I did seem to see something similar. I thought I had to working and then the next minute it was dead again. Everything else I've tried on the switches has worked really well.
I can't really afford a programmer at the minute just to dump the firmware.
Yeah LACP/LAG totally doesn't work at all for me, at least between the identical switches.
I did originally use the SFP port with some RJ45 modules to connect up at 10G but was shocked at the heat these gave off, I personally felt like they could become a fire risk.
I ended up pulling some new LC-LC fibres between the switches and replaced the ethernet cables and instead used some spare 10G Fibre Modules that I'd never used in the past. They are much cooler running.
So not overally concerned about LAG/LACP not working now, for the price point £50 each I'd rather not tinker with the firmware unless I knew for sure I wouldn't have a bricked device.
Yeah sounds like your best option. I also got them for about £50 each with Australian power cords. All the other options were quite a bit more, and even that option has gone back up in price now. Still a bargain though. I have one on my desk linked back to my core switch at 2.5G, and others dotted around the house. I've even been able to reliably run a 4K HDMI video matrix over them and switch inputs by swapping VLANs with a few curl commands. I haven't used the SFP+ ports except for briefly testing out two switches linked together with a 1m DAC.
Yeah I did the same with the cords too as UK ones were like £15 more!
I've got some Halo H90X AP's and they all have 2.5Gbe connectivity.
Run a couple of servers at home and had some 10G SFP cards lying around. So cabled them in with DAC's.
The switches all connect into an 8 port SFP+ switch.
Wish I'd done this 5 years ago when moving into this house and ran fibre instead. As I've always had plenty of spares with working in IT, but I know switches with SFP+ ports were probably out of my budget then.
I've got some Halo H90X AP's and they all have 2.5Gbe connectivity.
Run a couple of servers at home and had some 10G SFP cards lying around. So cabled them in with DAC's.
The switches all connect into an 8 port SFP+ switch.
Wish I'd done this 5 years ago when moving into this house and ran fibre instead. As I've always had plenty of spares with working in IT, but I know switches with SFP+ ports were probably out of my budget then.
Hi all,
I've received a Horaco 8+1 PoE model - board rev SWTG118ANS-V1.2-17459.
I've accidentally flashed the wrong firmware to it. I've tried to write the AS firmware to it but no dice.
The switch powers up, SYS light flashes and all ports flash. I've been unable to get a proper serial connection to see any output.
Has anyone seen this behavior before (the restart and flashing issue) and does anyone have the firmware for this revision? I've asked via AliExpress but would be good to see if I can get it to play with this weekend.
Thanks!
EDIT: Asked for updated firmware - Horaco said there isn't any so I've asked for the original (in hind site should probably have asked that first...)
I now have serial access and it's looping similar to bjorn's switch. Will report back when I have tried original firmware, and also upload PCB photos and firmware.
I've received a Horaco 8+1 PoE model - board rev SWTG118ANS-V1.2-17459.
I've accidentally flashed the wrong firmware to it. I've tried to write the AS firmware to it but no dice.
The switch powers up, SYS light flashes and all ports flash. I've been unable to get a proper serial connection to see any output.
Has anyone seen this behavior before (the restart and flashing issue) and does anyone have the firmware for this revision? I've asked via AliExpress but would be good to see if I can get it to play with this weekend.
Thanks!
EDIT: Asked for updated firmware - Horaco said there isn't any so I've asked for the original (in hind site should probably have asked that first...)
I now have serial access and it's looping similar to bjorn's switch. Will report back when I have tried original firmware, and also upload PCB photos and firmware.
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One of my two xikestor sks3200m-4gpy2xf switches seems to have died, Its SYS Light is just blinking fast, but cant access web UI, It still routes traffic though. Tried to connect over the debug console and bring it to recovery mode but was unable to ping/access the webui 
. Ordered a replacement flash chip and will try dumping/reflashing from my working switch. Thanks up-n-atom for the github docs!
. Ordered a replacement flash chip and will try dumping/reflashing from my working switch. Thanks up-n-atom for the github docs!There is a Xikestore 8+1 SKS3200M-8GPY1XF 1.9.1 Firmware Dated May 10 2024 btw
Works on atleast the following
Original Hardware
HRUI HR-SWTGW218AS
Known OEM/ODM Version's
AmpCom WAMJHJ-8125MNG
Horaco ZX-SWTGW218AS
MokerLink 2G08110GS
Sodola SL-SWTGW218AS
Xikestore SKS3200M-8GPY1XF
Edit
I have just had a reply from AmpCom for my WAMJHJ-8125MNG they provided me with the exact same binary (Same CRC32) as the SKS3200M-8GPY1XF 1.9.1 Firmware Dated May 10 2024 just named 18841_V1.9.1_ZX-218AS_0510.bin instead of A9_RF_V1.9.1_SKS3200M-8GPY1XF_0510.bin
If you want it
Select
Switch
SKS3200M series
SKS3200M-8GPY1XF
7 A9_RF_V1.9.1_SKS3200M-8GPY1XF_0510.bin
Works on atleast the following
Original Hardware
HRUI HR-SWTGW218AS
Known OEM/ODM Version's
AmpCom WAMJHJ-8125MNG
Horaco ZX-SWTGW218AS
MokerLink 2G08110GS
Sodola SL-SWTGW218AS
Xikestore SKS3200M-8GPY1XF
Edit
I have just had a reply from AmpCom for my WAMJHJ-8125MNG they provided me with the exact same binary (Same CRC32) as the SKS3200M-8GPY1XF 1.9.1 Firmware Dated May 10 2024 just named 18841_V1.9.1_ZX-218AS_0510.bin instead of A9_RF_V1.9.1_SKS3200M-8GPY1XF_0510.bin
If you want it
Select
Switch
SKS3200M series
SKS3200M-8GPY1XF
7 A9_RF_V1.9.1_SKS3200M-8GPY1XF_0510.bin
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If they used the RTL9303, it would most likely be a 10 Gbps switch. The RTL9301 would make more sense in that case, but that chip draws more power, not less as far as I know.
The current switches use the RTL8372 or RTL8373 (layer 2) and not the RTL93xx (layer 3).
The Previous revision used RTL8373 + RTL8224
RTL8372 is the 4+2 Realtek platform of the same generation
the new revision we have no idea but the firmware isnt compatible
you have no idea what is in there but are stating it as if its fact that the new revision is RTL8372 OR RTL8373
The 4+2 port version is RTL8372 and the 8+1 port RTL8373. If i look at the new firmware version for the SKS3200-8E1X (2.0.9) it is still for RTL8373 and there is mention of the 8224. The OEM is still HENGRUI. So most likely the OEM made a new board revision, hence the change of the firmware.
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The old firmware is 915KB the new 941KB. So no obvious difference. But a different PCB layout with for instance another LED matrix design could warrant a different firmware.
The led is different on the new revision there seems to be 1 led below the port rather than 2 built into the port
that would be interesting if thats all it is as the firmware should work but with broken led's
Im not brave enough to try as i have no flash backup
that would be interesting if thats all it is as the firmware should work but with broken led's
Im not brave enough to try as i have no flash backup