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Dell™ Networking N2128PX-ON 

 
Upgrading Dell™

 

Networking 

N2128PX-ON Series Switches 
to 6.3.6.9 Firmware

 

  

 

 

 

 

Date: Nov 2017 

 

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Page 1: ...c Intel and Pentium are registered trademarks and Celeron is a trademark of Intel Corporation Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation Other trademarks and trade names may be used in this document to refer to either the entity claiming the marks and names or their products Dell Inc disclaims any proprietary interest in trademarks and trade names other than its own A...

Page 2: ...Overview 1 Firmware Upgrade Procedure for Dell Networking N2128PX ON Series Switches 2 How to Access Serial Console on N2128PX ON Series switches 3 Upgrading Example for Dell Networking N2128PX ON Series Switches 3 Stacking Notes 7 Switch Recovery Procedure 8 Switch Recovery Example 8 End of document 12 ...

Page 3: ...ell Networking N2128PX ON Switches to firmware version 6 3 6 9 pdf Upgrade the switch to the latest firmware version by downloading the latest image from support dell com It is recommended that the latest version of switch firmware 6 3 6 9 be used as it contains multiple fixes and feature enhancements IMPORTANT Dell Networking N2128PX ON switches with HW revision of 4 and later require firmware ve...

Page 4: ...t contain a non default enable authentication method or enable password configure an enable password and save the configuration Example steps to configure an enable password are shown below console configure console config enable password password console config exit console copy running config startup config 3 Download the 6 3 6 9 firmware image N2100v6 3 6 9 stk to the switch or stack master NOT...

Page 5: ...opy the running config to a TFTP server console copy running config tftp 10 10 10 200 myconfig txt Mode TFTP Set TFTP Server IP 10 10 10 200 TFTP Path TFTP Filename myconfig txt Data Type Config Script Source Filename running config Management access will be blocked for the duration of the transfer Are you sure you want to start y n y 11062 bytes transferred File transfer operation completed succe...

Page 6: ...t to reload the stack y n y NOTE If using the serial port to update the firmware the following output will be observed If logged in via telnet or SSH rebooting the switch will close the connection Rebooting may take several minutes to complete and the switch may reboot itself more than once during the upgrade procedure Reference platform resetting Unmounting config filesystem starting pid 1700 tty...

Page 7: ...UBI number of good PEBs 4014 UBI number of bad PEBs 4 UBI max allowed volumes 128 UBI wear leveling threshold 4096 UBI number of internal volumes 1 UBI number of user volumes 1 UBI available PEBs 44 UBI total number of reserved PEBs 3970 UBI number of PEBs reserved for bad PEB handling 40 UBI max mean erase counter 3 2 UBIFS recovery needed UBIFS recovery deferred UBIFS mounted UBI device 0 volume...

Page 8: ...rational Code done Uncompressing apps lzma Uncompressing python lzma Installing Python 185 Nov 27 18 53 09 0 0 0 0 0 General fp_main_task unitmgr c 6606 1 Reboot 1 0x1 DMA pool size 16777216 AXI unit 0 Dev 0xb547 Rev 0x01 Chip BCM56547_A0 Driver BCM56340_A0 SOC unit 0 attached to PCI device BCM56547_A0 Using a clock divider of 16 for mac_cclk 186 Nov 27 18 53 18 0 0 0 0 1 General fp_main_task boot...

Page 9: ...N2128PX ON Serial Number 15114M0002LF Manufacturer 0xbc00 Burned In MAC Address 001E C9E5 BD0F System Object ID 1 3 6 1 4 1 674 10895 3066 SOC Version BCM56150_A0 HW Version 1 CPLD Version 16 unit active backup current active next active 1 6 3 6 4 6 3 6 9 6 3 6 4 6 3 6 4 2 6 3 6 4 6 3 6 9 6 3 6 4 6 3 6 4 3 6 3 6 4 6 3 6 9 6 3 6 4 6 3 6 4 console boot system backup Activating image backup console s...

Page 10: ... serial console port on the switch 8 No Parity 1 115200 No Flow Control Use the supplied RJ45 Yost to DB9 serial cable Connect the RJ45 end to the switch console port and the DB9 connector to your PC Set the terminal emulation software for example PuTTY to the correct settings default setting 115200 baud 8 data bits no parity bit 1 stop bit and no flow control 2 When the boot menu appears select 2...

Page 11: ...n to Factory Defaults 11 Activate Backup Image 12 Start Password Recovery Enter Choice 4 Creating tmpfs filesystem on mnt download for download done Current Active Image dev mtd7 Which Image to Update Active dev mtd7 OR Back Up dev mtd6 Select A B A You selected to update Active Image dev mtd7 Select Mode of Transfer Press T X Y Z for TFTP XMODEM YMODEM ZMODEM T Please ensure TFTP server is runnin...

Page 12: ...8 MiB WARNING Caches not enabled Bad bus 2 NAND ONFI MT29F32G08ABAAAWP blocks per lun 1000 lun count 1 NAND 1024 KiB blocks 8 KiB pages 16B OOB 8 bit NAND chipsize 4096 MiB EEPROM TlvInfo v1 len 173 soc_pcie_hw_init port reg_base 0x18012000 its value 0x1 PCIe port in RC mode PCIE LINKSTA reg 0xbe val 0x1001 port 0 is not active In serial Out serial Err serial CLOCKS ARM Core 1000Hz AXI 500Hz APB 1...

Page 13: ...s 61008000 Entry Point 61008000 Contents Image 0 2636152 Bytes 2 5 MiB Image 1 1794839 Bytes 1 7 MiB Image 2 474 Bytes 474 Bytes Image 3 23192424 Bytes 22 1 MiB Verifying Checksum OK Loading init Ramdisk from multi component Legacy Image at 70000074 Flattened Device Tree from multi component Image at 70000074 Booting using the fdt at 0x70439d58 Image is not a fdt Continuing to boot without FDT Unc...

Page 14: ...bootos c 191 8 Event 0xaaaaaaaa started 185 Nov 27 22 53 18 0 0 0 0 1 SIM Cnfgr_Thread sim_util c 3889 10 Switch was reset due to operator intervention Unit 1 Waiting to select management unit Applying Global configuration please wait Applying Interface configuration please wait console 5 Verify that the 6 3 6 9 version of firmware is loaded on the switch console show version Machine Description D...

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