A client of mine has some Foundry FastIron Edge X424HFs. Brocade and Extreme don't seem overly ambitious to help. Anyone have any documentation they can scrounge up? SFP compatibility list? The ones I see in there already look substantially like the ones I get from FiberStore, but that doesn't mean much. Do they still sell support on these? I'm largely just interested in newer firmware for them. I don't think they were updated since they left the factory and there are a few quirks I'm hoping they addressed at some point. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP
:A client of mine has some Foundry FastIron Edge X424HFs. : :Brocade and Extreme don't seem overly ambitious to help. Brocade EOL'ed those old FESX-4 switches themselves on 03/31/2011, with EOS in 2016. This was before Brocadecom spun off to Extreme. :Anyone have any documentation they can scrounge up? SFP compatibility list? The ones I see in there already look substantially like the ones I get from FiberStore, but that doesn't mean much. Can't help you there, sorry... :Do they still sell support on these? I'm largely just interested in newer firmware for them. I don't think they were updated since they left the factory and there are a few quirks I'm hoping they addressed at some point. Depending on your bother, check out the FESX424-L3U "Layer 3 Upgrade Kit". That particular software piece looks like it gets support for another few months, if I am to believe Brocade's website (which only has the FESX-6 EOL notice, not the older FESX-4 one). http://www.brocade.com/en/backend-content/pdf-page.html?/content/dam/common/... -Mike -- Michael J. O'Connor mjo@dojo.mi.org =--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--= "Take me out... to the black. Tell 'em I ain't comin' back." -Firefly
By the way, Foundry/Brocade small/campus switches were sold by Broadcom to Ruckus, not to Extreme (who bought the bigger switch/routers). https://support.ruckuswireless.com/product_families/21-ruckus-icx-campus-swi... <https://support.ruckuswireless.com/product_families/21-ruckus-icx-campus-switches> https://support.ruckuswireless.com/product_families/23-_eol-fastiron-product... <https://support.ruckuswireless.com/product_families/23-_eol-fastiron-products> Of course, as it is an end of life product in their shopping bag, I wouldn't expect much :)
On 29 dec. 2017 at 09:19, Mike O'Connor <mjo@dojo.mi.org> wrote :
A client of mine has some Foundry FastIron Edge X424HFs.
Brocade and Extreme don't seem overly ambitious to help.
Brocade EOL'ed those old FESX-4 switches themselves on 03/31/2011, with EOS in 2016. This was before Brocadecom spun off to Extreme.
In my experience, Brocades in general aren’t very picky when it comes to working with any optic branding. It’s just the DOM that might or might not work. I’ve only ever had 1 vendor show issues with Brocade after an ironware upgrade. Can always grab a few brocade branded optics from Flexoptix Jeroen Wunnink Intergration Engineering www.gtt.net <http://www.gtt.net/> On 20/12/2017, 03:26, "NANOG on behalf of Mike Hammett" <nanog-bounces@nanog.org on behalf of nanog@ics-il.net> wrote: A client of mine has some Foundry FastIron Edge X424HFs. Brocade and Extreme don't seem overly ambitious to help. Anyone have any documentation they can scrounge up? SFP compatibility list? The ones I see in there already look substantially like the ones I get from FiberStore, but that doesn't mean much. Do they still sell support on these? I'm largely just interested in newer firmware for them. I don't think they were updated since they left the factory and there are a few quirks I'm hoping they addressed at some point. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP
On 01/02/2018 04:09 AM, Jeroen Wunnink wrote:
In my experience, Brocades in general aren’t very picky when it comes to working with any optic branding. It’s just the DOM that might or might not work. I’ve only ever had 1 vendor show issues with Brocade after an ironware upgrade.
This applies to the Foundry-lineage stuff. The Brocade-lineage stuff, especially anything having to do with Fibre Channel, is sometimes locked to Brocade-ROM'd parts only. The somewhat popular/cheap 10GbE/FCoE cards floating around exhibit this. -- Brandon Martin
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