Solved: Connecting Two Switches - Page 2

npineiro · ‎07-12-2022

Hey Everyone,

Im very much a networking noob and was wondering if someone can point me in the right direction. I have an ICX 7150-C12 and an ICX6430-C12. The 7150 is running the L3 firmware and the 6430 is running the base firmware; layer 2 only. Im trying to connect these two switches together.

I have a straight through cable connecting these two switches via their uplink ports 1/2/2 on the 7150 and 1/2/1 on the 6430. The link lights are not turning on. The only thing I havent tried is using a cross over cable. Was wondering if I might be doing something dumb here. help?

npineiro · ‎07-13-2022

Hey Thanks for your response. Turned out to be a bad cable 😅 These cat 6 cables are hard to crimp.

My thinking of using the uplink port is so that I can have as many of the ports on the switch available since there are only 12 of them.

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