N3024F + RADIUS + Privilege levels
We have set up RADIUS authentication on our Dell N3024F switch. We have set up two sets of network policies - first is for network admins an the other is for Rancid.We have other Cisco switches in our...
View Articles4810 service tag lookup
HelloOn s4810 using cli how do we find the service tag number? show inventory show systemdo not have the service tag info.FTOS version: 8.3.7.0ThanksParas.
View ArticleSPF+ module question
We've got some Dell FTLX8571D3BCL-FC transceivers in, on the server side Qlogic BCM57810 cards, and in our Dell S4048-ON switches, that connect to a Dell EQL 6110 San which I'm assuming are the same....
View ArticleDell Networking OS for Openflow - Openflow Handshake failed
Hallo,I am running DNOS-OF v1.1 on a Dell N1524 Switch. When I connect it to a Openflow Controller (I am using Floodlight) the Openflow handshake fails. The Problem is the FeaturesReply, that the...
View ArticleN2048P port based VLAN with separate IP subnet
Hi,I currently have both phones and desktops on the same 10.0.50.x IP subnet across two N2048P switches (Unit 1 and 2). The computers receive their internet connection daisy chained from the phones. My...
View ArticleN-Series switches and RADIUS Configuration
I've been racking my brain against this for awhile. I saw a new post that was kind of what I was looking for but ended up not being it. I have two groups of users. One being Engineers and another being...
View ArticleMXL - VLTi - iSCSI OH MY!!!
We are experiencing a weird issue that should not happen, we think. We have two MXL fabric switches connected to each other with Forty Gb ports with VLTi. Our SANs are connected across both of those...
View ArticleInter vlan routing
Hi, I have 3 vlans, and they can't comunicate. For example, I have a host in vlan 2, and I can't acess the service ssh in a host of vlan 4.I already enable routing in switch layer 3 and in each vlan,...
View ArticleForce 10 spanning tree help
Hi,We have two data centers, each has a pair of S4810's connected together via VLT, in each DC the top switch as a RSTP priority of 4096 and the bottom 8192, so far so good, VLT is happy :)There is now...
View ArticleWhy does one of my FX2 IOA switches show every single vlan in the config
Its a real hassle to sh run on one of my FX2 IOA switches. Basically it shows every single vlan it seems. I can't even get ot the bottom of the config. An example is that every vlan shows something...
View Articlesupport required for inter VLAN routing
We have configured the the DEll 3024 switch as a core (with stack) , and four 2048 connected to the core as a access switch , i able to ping from all the vlan client to other vlan gateway , but...
View ArticleSpanning-tree problems on N2000 switch
Hello,on our N2000 Switches i get a lot of log entries with regard to spanning-tree on access ports. An exemplary snipped from one switch looks as follows,<189> Dec 4 14:33:01 dsw-sz1-02-2-1...
View ArticleOnly allow specific IPs on VLAN
Hello,I have a PowerConnect 6248 and I want to create a VLAN that only allows specific IPs to run. Port 1 is Uplink to the network configured as general port with VLAN 1 and 11. This is the connection...
View ArticleForce10 to Themis IPMI Issue
I have a Themis server that runs integrated IPMI. Everything works fine when the power is on, however when the power is off, my Force10 will not supply power to the port in order to remotely power on...
View ArticleChanging Time/Date format in OMNM
Hi, In OMNM - where do I change the time/date format to 24hrs ?Using version. 6.2.0.51 SP3
View ArticleN2000: Updating CPLD on stack members
Hi!We are managing our switches using OMNM. When updating firmware on these:1. How important is it to upgrade CPLD as well? - We can do this remote using "update CPLD" and it will perform a reboot. 2....
View ArticleN2000 - Error on stack
Hi, I have a configuration of 6x N2000 switches in a stack. Management Standby Preconfig Plugged-in Switch CodeSW Status Status Model ID Model ID Status Version--- ---------- --------- -------------...
View Articlevlan access Between Cisco and Dell
Hi, Access between Cisco(2960s) and Dell 6248Without having any VLAN configuration on Dell switch, How can we access VLANs from Ciscoswitch? but I can PING (web, ssh) the IP address of dell switch.How...
View ArticleHigh CPU usage on CPU management unit
Hello,I have a DELL MXL switch, which is showing a high CPU usage on management unit. It shows two processes consuming 92% of utilization. The processes are , "system" and "sysdlp". NETM17>show...
View ArticleHow to factory reset Dell PowerConnect M6348?
Hello guys,this is my first post here, im glad to join this community.we are a small company that have a PowerEdge M1000e chassis and we just bought 2 PowerConnect M6348 from a third party vendor. the...
View ArticleCan someone help me understand LLDP?
I am a lone sysadmin with limited networking knowledge, however I'm learning quite a bit these days. One new thing I've been trying to learn about is LLDP because we are getting a new VoIP system...
View ArticleBetter to stack n1548 or uplink 10GbE?
Hi Dell Community.We have a stack of 2 n1548 we use in the role of access switches for phones and computers. This switch also handles routed fiber connections to our remote offices.We had an old Cisco...
View ArticleX1052 crashed/bricked after connecting SFP module
Hi I have for last 2 weeks used X1052 without any problem. I have setup 2 SFP+ ports (I use them in SFP mode) as LACP to connect to ZyXEL GS1920-24 on other end. Until yesterday I use only one port...
View ArticleTransmitted oversized packets: message on N-Series switches
Hi,we see a lot of "Transmitted oversized packets" on our N-series switches (N2000, N3000, and N4000). This happens most likely on uplink ports. As an example, here are the results from an N2000...
View ArticleIP ACL problems N-Series switch
Hi,defining a rule following the description on page 711 User Guide the swich notes "% Invalid input detected at '^' marker."for the following aclpermit every 10.10.10.0 0.0.1.255 10.50.10.0...
View ArticlePowerConnect N3048P too many logging messages
We have a few DELL N3048P switch stacks that are producing a lot of logging messages:NOT01-01-47-03#show verMachine Description............... Dell Networking SwitchSystem Model ID......................
View ArticleNo ICMP between vlans and a lot of Discarded packets
Hello to everyone,I have a stack of 3* N3048 Switches (running config attached). There are different vlans configured. The clients are connected to access mode ports. The Gateway for all vlans is the...
View ArticleEndpoint ports: best practice
Hi,We are a small company, with a few Dell switches (5324, 5448 & 5548). These were installed a long time ago by previous IT staff and without any setup, just powered up and stuff plugged into...
View ArticlePowerconnect 3548 - New to managed switches
I've recently come to be hired by a small manufacturing company that employs 4 Powerconnect 3548 and 4 Powerconnect 3548P switches. Being that my previous IT jobs worked more with server hardware, VMs,...
View ArticleN3024 Switch Configuration
I have recently purchased a Dell N3024 switch to replace an older Cisco switch and router combination that is no longer suppported plus, I did not have access to the CLI on that equipment as it was...
View ArticleN-Series switch log message CLI_WEB[UtilTask]: cmd_logger_api.c(260) 6324951...
Hi,can one explain this log message?
View ArticleNetwork simulator?
Does anyone know if there is an updated (or any) simulator for the F10 MXL, S, or N series switches? I see the FTOS 9.11 emulator for the S series but looks like it's lacking a few things and hasn't...
View ArticleN2048 VPC/MLAG completely broken after upgrade to 6.3.3.10
Hi,I was getting a memory error every 30 seconds on this N2048 and I did some searching around and it said to try updating the firmware. I updated the firmware on one of the switches and rebooted it....
View ArticleUnable to share port between VLANs on old PowerConnect 2724
Greetings all, my company has an old PowerConnect 2724 switch and I'm passing the last month stuck in a odd situation: I want to create three VLANs for security purposes, with 1 specific port (of my...
View Articlevlt peer routing and ip helper configuration
i m planning to migrate to dual configuration of S4048-ON with vlt per routing and i m wondering what is the best configuration for ip helper configurationshould i put the configuation tto two...
View ArticleRIP version on S4048-ON version 9.10(0.1)
Hii have some trouble configuring rip on my force10 switchi would like to go to rip version 2 to be able to have cidr in the documentation i can read To specify the RIP version, use the version command...
View ArticleVLANs on Powerconnect 5548
My scenario is simple. I need to create two VLANs A, B. Ports 1-20 need to be able to access both VLANs A and B. The rest of the ports 21-48 only VLAN A. The purpose of the setup is to isolate a...
View Articlecan N3024F control the traffic bandwidth per port
HelloWe have N3024F we are working as ISPI'm wondering if i can control the traffic bandwidth per port , with N3024Ffor example port 4 should allow to use 350Mbps for upload and download traffic ,not...
View ArticleForce 10 "Port is not in layer-2 mode"
When trying to configure a port in a layer-3 VLAN we get the error "Port is not in layer-2 mode".Reading the documentation regarding layer-3 VLANs everything seems pretty straight forward, but we can't...
View ArticleDell 6248P switches with ShoreTel IP 480 phones
After attempting to configure a separate scope/VLAN for our ShoreTel phones, I am still unable to get the phones to pick up an address from the correct scope - with the settings I have listed below it...
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Stacking 2 MXL 10/40G
Hi,We have configured a stack of 2 switches Dell MXL 10/40G by executins the following commands on each of them.Dell#show system stack-unit 0 stack-group...
View ArticleLAG port going down
Hello all, I have an issue with a N1548 (Firm6.3.2.6)switch connected to a Fortigate firewall through a 2 port LAG, one of the ports at the SW is going down with an interval of 1 minute or less, no...
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Vlan in a Lag port
Hello,I have a simple question here, I configured a LAG betwen a 6224 and 5424, all ports are in a Vlan 4 ok.=> It is necessary to put the LAG in the Vlan 4 too ? It is only mark here the Channel 1 ?
View ArticleReplacing a stack member with a different type of switch
Hi,I need to replace a stack member, N2048, with a N2048P switch. What is the correct procedure for this? I cant seem to find any documentation. I guess that this will mess up the config because it...
View ArticleHelp converting three networks into VLAN
I had a problem with an appliance that only had one ethernet port because i need to connect it to three different network so i borrow an Dell N3024 switch trying to find a solution.Already i have three...
View Articlevlan across switches
Hi,i'm having trouble setting up vlan across two switches. I've read the "Networking Best Practices - Connecting Two Switches", but couldn't get the vlan communicate between the switches.We have a...
View ArticleMast and EPS on - can't console into switch
When I power up the switch, the EPS and Master LED come on at the same time and no other LED come on or blink - see the photo I have attached. I have tried to connect them using RS232 cable and pushed...
View ArticleS4048T-ON PBR redirect list - is DENY possible?
Hello everyoneI have Dell S4048T-ON switch with firmware 9.11(2.1).I am trying to implement PBR to allow some IP addresses use another internet gateway than everyone - i mean only traffic destined to...
View ArticlePowerConnect 6224 will not link SFP+ to my HP DL580 G7
If I connect the SFP+ ports in loop-back they will link up with no issues.If I connect my 2 servers directly together with different SFP+ pcie cards they will link up.If either server is connected to...
View ArticleN1500P Switches and PowerConnect 6200
Hello,i have had four Dell PowerConnect 6224 switches for the last four years and still running. These are configureed and stacked together with VLANs. Now due to budget constraints we cannot afford...
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