We use FS switches in our environment. Every switch has a different UI, and they are configured differently in many aspects. You have to learn every switch. Even when configuring LACP it differs between switches. I struggle to understand why FS does this...
Thank you for commenting! These switches definitely support LACP. We don’t have a configuration video for that specific setting, but we do have a GUI walk-through, where you can take a look at all the settings this switch has offer.
Can you tell us when it's better to stack/vs when it's better to have just ring topology? If you're going from MDF to IDF do you want to have separate or stacked switches if you are connecting the MDF to the IDF with fiber? Is there a best-practice here? Also, in looking at the 2 switch stacked config, vs the 3 switch stacked config, it looks like on their pdf walkthrough it shows Switch A & C in their example on the pdf file to be connecting Group 2 of the A to Group 1 of the C, when I set this up, I keep getting "SGNP ERROR: Port 1 received pdu from the same sl group 1." I am using the enhanced mode, but not sure why they are mismatching on the PDF? Thanks for your feedback.
Also, how would you push firmware updates to the switches if they are stacked? If you send it to the single web-gui, does it push to all 3 switches? Is there a way to reboot each individual switch in a stacked config or do you have to do everything from the CLI when you stack? Before the stack, you can run DHCP-client on the switch to let it grab an IP from the dhcp server, but after you create a stacked configuration it only allows static IP addresses? Is this by design or a bug in the software?
2 times written in video: "We forgot to.add our timeout before we quit. Please check the description for the command. [ ] check successfull done 😂 (could be of common interest but we have a different modell with total different commands in compare)
Yeah, I hear you. In this price range you aren’t going to get that. This switch is right around $1,600 so virtual stacking is what you’re going to get. I can say I’ve been very pleased with it.
Can anyone explain the group portion of the interface command? FS documentation gives 2 stack and 4 stack examples and I do not understand the usage of groups and I am trying to stack 3 switches. "bvss interface 1 slot 1 port 1 group 1" what does group 1 here mean?
Just stacked 2 FS S3900-48T6S-R. Works great. Thanks.
We use FS switches in our environment. Every switch has a different UI, and they are configured differently in many aspects. You have to learn every switch. Even when configuring LACP it differs between switches. I struggle to understand why FS does this...
thanks, i assume you can run an lacp with one port on each switch
Thank you for commenting! These switches definitely support LACP. We don’t have a configuration video for that specific setting, but we do have a GUI walk-through, where you can take a look at all the settings this switch has offer.
Can you tell us when it's better to stack/vs when it's better to have just ring topology? If you're going from MDF to IDF do you want to have separate or stacked switches if you are connecting the MDF to the IDF with fiber? Is there a best-practice here? Also, in looking at the 2 switch stacked config, vs the 3 switch stacked config, it looks like on their pdf walkthrough it shows Switch A & C in their example on the pdf file to be connecting Group 2 of the A to Group 1 of the C, when I set this up, I keep getting "SGNP ERROR: Port 1 received pdu from the same sl group 1." I am using the enhanced mode, but not sure why they are mismatching on the PDF? Thanks for your feedback.
Also, how would you push firmware updates to the switches if they are stacked? If you send it to the single web-gui, does it push to all 3 switches? Is there a way to reboot each individual switch in a stacked config or do you have to do everything from the CLI when you stack? Before the stack, you can run DHCP-client on the switch to let it grab an IP from the dhcp server, but after you create a stacked configuration it only allows static IP addresses? Is this by design or a bug in the software?
Did you ever resolve the SGNP Error?
2 times written in video: "We forgot to.add our timeout before we quit.
Please check the description for the command.
[ ] check successfull done 😂 (could be of common interest but we have a different modell with total different commands in compare)
LINKING two switches together with 10G SFP+ is hardly the same as STACKING switches that have a backplane STACKING module.
Yeah, I hear you. In this price range you aren’t going to get that. This switch is right around $1,600 so virtual stacking is what you’re going to get. I can say I’ve been very pleased with it.
Can anyone explain the group portion of the interface command? FS documentation gives 2 stack and 4 stack examples and I do not understand the usage of groups and I am trying to stack 3 switches. "bvss interface 1 slot 1 port 1 group 1" what does group 1 here mean?
did you ever get your answer?