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Dell PowerConnect Network Switches

Dell PowerConnect is Dell's product line of business networking devices. They connect computers and servers in mostly small to medium sized networks. They are available in pre-configured unmanaged models as well as managed models for flexibility in managing traffic.

There are two main model lines of PowerConnect switches. The classic line are 8-48 port 100Mbps/1Gbps/10Gbps ethernet switches, unmanaged and managed.

The B-series, J-series, and W-series are re-branded Brocade, Juniper, and Aruba Networks switches respectively and target the enterprise network market.

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Cheapest Way To Stack 48 Port Switch With My Dell 6248?

I have a Dell 6248 managed switch with 48 1 GB ports. I'm out of ports and would like to add an additional 48 1GB ports. The official Dell-Recommended solution is to get another 6248 and link the two with a 48GB fiber SFP+ uplink (might be using…
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Basic VLAN configuration with Dell PowerConnect 2848

I'm hoping someone will help me since I've been googling around for some answers but I can't seem to get a straight forward answer. Disclaimer first... I'm not a network guy, programmer by trade. So I inherited an environment consisting of a Dell…
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PowerConnect 3548p SNTP and web interface not working

I have been unable to get SNTP and access to the web interface working properly on a Dell PowerConnect 3548p. In the logs, this message appears over and over again: 04-Jan-2000 20:19:29 :%MNGINF-W-ACL: Management ACL drop packet received on…
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Dell powerconnect 6224 vlan routing

I have a small network and I need help with routing .. . My VLANs VLAN 1010 SALES VLAN 1020 HR I have assigned the above vlans to a tagged port and I have added a default route to send the traffic of to my firewall. ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0…
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Spanning tree outage with root port removal

Today, A tech at a remote server site unplugged a single port from one of our fiber converters for our WAN uplink from a Dell PowerConnect Switch. We lost all networking on the 3 stacked 48 port switches for a while, and looking at the log, it…
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Dell PowerConnect Console connection via Ethernet

When you buy a Dell PowerConnect (In my case it's a 5548) you are given a console cable that is serial to ethernet. Let's say you don't have a serial port on your laptop and but you still want to run the setup wizard via the terminal. Is there…
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DELL switch CAM table don't show MAC from different network

I'm solving problem with slow DHCP request/respons about 45 secs...toplogy is [L2] DELL 6248 -> [L2->L3] router (cisco) -> firewall Debian server with DHCP -> gateway to internet I think that problem is on DELL 6248 where clients are connected. When…
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How can we tell our switch is dying?

We have two dell powerconnect 5324 (about 5-6 years old). For the last few weeks, we have been seeing connectivity warnings for 2-3 minutes ata time for unkonwn reason (colo says everything is fine, our IT manager says there is nothing wrong with…
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Managing managed switches

I have a number of Dell PowerConnect switches. I've successfully setup various 'trunks' and vLANs and all working sweet. But one thing annoys me. I can't seem to 'manage' my switches from my laptop as I am on a particular subnet (vLAN12 10.0.12.x)…
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dell powerconnect switch logs

Is it possible to view an event log on managed Dell PowerConnect switches (using the CLI)? We use a mix of 6224F, 6224, 3524P, and 3548P switches and having just had some network related issues which affected our entire network and I'm curious to…
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PowerEdge 1955 Blade Switches - PowerConnect 5316m

I currently working on a project to expand my companies storage while virtualizing our infrastructure. One road block I'm running into at the moment is trying to figure out conceptually how the blade switches work and also how to access their…
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VMware vSwitches and Dell PowerConnect BPDU guard

I am using two Dell PowerConnect 6248 switches to connect a VMware host vSwitch. A discussion of config of Cisco switches for use with VMware advises to set physical ports connected to vSwitch with bpduguard and portfast. However, Dell switches…
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Does a router have to explicitly support GRE in order to pass those connections?

I have replaced a mess of Cisco routers with a single Dell PowerConnect 6224. These routers serve (and served) public IPs to clients, and just acted as routers to the upstream provider. Prior to the replacement, a customer had a VPN appliance that…
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Strange Network / Switch Behavior

A few days ago I rewired two racks at my local datacenter. They are side by side and have about 40 servers. I was using an old office type switch and two Dell PowerConnects 5324 and I wanted to remove the old switch (which had about 80% of the…
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Assign computers to specific VLANs with Dell PowerConnect 3524/6224

Our network consists of a number of Dell PowerConnect switches. 1 x 6224 (core switch) 5 x 3524 cabinet switches. We are using VLANs, to segregate different classes of systems. This was first achieved by assigning VLANs to specific port switches,…
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