Foundry Switch Firmware Upgrade Order

[mikehammett]

I have some Foundry FESX424F-PREM switches. They are running version 3.1. I also have IronWare 7.2. Can I jump from 3.1 to 7.2 or are there intermediary steps I need to go through to ensure a smooth transition?

[BenBeck]

I would guess worst case is you have to recover from bootmon which isn't too hard. Again, hard to say without testing the scenario. Officially speaking, it would be at your own risk 🙂

[mikehammett]

How would I do such recovery, should it be necessary?

[mikehammett]

Well, it worked on my spare, no config switch. I guess it's time to try it on the production ones.


FESX424F Router#show ver
  SW: Version 07.2.02rT3e3 Copyright (c) 1996-2010 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
      Compiled on Oct 23 2015 at 05:43:57 labeled as SXR07202r
      (4026161 bytes) Secondary SXR07202r.bin
      BootROM: Version 07.2.00T3e5 (FEv2)
  HW: Stackable FESX424HF-PREM (PROM-TYPE FESX424-L3U)
==========================================================================
      Serial  #: FL35067706
         License: SX_V4_HW_ROUTER_SOFT_PACKAGE   (LID: hnIKFLMMFL)
      P-ASIC  0: type 00D1, rev D2  subrev 00
      P-ASIC  1: type 00D1, rev D2  subrev 00
==========================================================================
  333 MHz Power PC processor 8245 (version 129/1014) 66 MHz bus
  512 KB boot flash memory
 8192 KB code flash memory
  128 MB DRAM
The system uptime is 35 seconds
The system : started=warm start   reloaded=by "reload"

FESX424F Router#show flash
Compressed Pri Code size = 3613091, Version 03.1.00bT3e3 (SXR03100b.bin)
Compressed Sec Code size = 4026161, Version 07.2.02rT3e3 (SXR07202r.bin)
Compressed BootROM Code size = 524288, Version 07.2.00T3e5
Code Flash Free Space = 319488

[mikehammett]

First two production switch upgrades went just as flawlessly. Works great!

[thierry_lethuil]

Hi Mike,

I also have many Foundry LS624 and LS648 switches which are running Ironware version 3.1
Can you confirm you managed to update Ironware directly from version 03.1.00b to version 07.2.02r ?