{"id":143,"date":"2015-02-13T22:45:22","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T02:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/puck.nether.net\/~jared\/blog\/?p=143"},"modified":"2015-02-13T22:45:22","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T02:45:22","slug":"lb4m-and-cheap-switching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/puck.nether.net\/~jared\/blog\/?p=143","title":{"rendered":"LB4M and cheap switching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been starting to play around with the LB4M as a cheap switching platform.  These can be had easily on eBay and other sites for around $100-105, including 2x10G-SR optics as part of the deal.  The downside is the switches are perhaps a bit noisy and a bit hard to work with as the CLI and software are a bit difficult to operate with.  It&#8217;s also not well supported by the manufacturer, and the software.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve decided to create a small archive of the images and data related to this platform.   Those can be found here: http:\/\/puck.nether.net\/~jared\/lb4m\/<\/p>\n<p>I am hoping to document some of the efforts I&#8217;m undertaking with these and any progress I have on getting more modern software, or even something linux based running on the box.<\/p>\n<p>If you know how to do a factory firmware restore on these, please do contact me, even if it requires XMODEM or JTAG.  I managed to load the improper firmware on the box such that the Boot Menu does not even appear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been starting to play around with the LB4M as a cheap switching platform. These can be had easily on eBay and other sites for around $100-105, including 2x10G-SR optics as part of the deal. The downside is the switches are perhaps a bit noisy and a bit hard to work with as the CLI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/puck.nether.net\/~jared\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/puck.nether.net\/~jared\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/puck.nether.net\/~jared\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puck.nether.net\/~jared\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puck.nether.net\/~jared\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/puck.nether.net\/~jared\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144,"href":"https:\/\/puck.nether.net\/~jared\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/puck.nether.net\/~jared\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puck.nether.net\/~jared\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puck.nether.net\/~jared\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}