[181577] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Quanta LB4M
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Sun Jun 28 15:56:24 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <1729959674.7770.1435517445740.JavaMail.mhammett@ThunderFuck>
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 15:56:17 -0400
To: Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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> On Jun 28, 2015, at 2:50 PM, Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net> wrote:
>=20
> Has anyone gotten a "non-factory" firmware to go onto these guys? =
There are a couple threads on Google that are inconclusive. There are =
rumors that it's the same as a Dell something or an HP something else, =
but no one has outright said, "I loaded a Dell XXXX firmware onto it and =
solved all of the random ass bugs."=20
I managed to brick one of these by loading the wrong firmware, or doing =
it at the wrong layer.
I have gotten a few more and these are great switches for home or =
environment where you have a spare on hand. You can usually get them =
for around $100 on eBay.
The firmware is *really* not designed for anything fancy but I=E2=80=99ve =
been able to drop in a variety of optics and have it work without issues =
in the 10G ports.
Check the flash on them as there is a primary/secondary flash once =
you=E2=80=99re past the boot image. (Don=E2=80=99t try to flash it from =
that level, that=E2=80=99s how I killed it at least).
I tossed a few different firmware versions I extracted here, as well as =
the flash0/flash1 images and the doc i found for it.
http://puck.nether.net/~jared/lb4m/
- Jared=
