Netgear M5300 & Fibre

[ellie666]

hi

 

not sure if this is the right forum?!

 

We have a netgear M5300-2836 switch which has 6 ports for putting fibre in and we are using an AXM761 module in these. All is working fine, except, that when we try to use and additional port (we are currently using 2 ports) that port doesn't seem to recognise the AXM761 module.

Everything is identical to what we've plugged into the 2 existing ports, including this module, and the only thing I can think is that something has been set in settings, but for the life of me I can not find out where.

 

any suggestions please.

 

thanks

 

Elliott

[difinity]

The AXM761 module is SFP+ maybe the ports you are plugging it into are only SFP ?

[m25man]

I can't see the detailed information in the 38 page product brief on my phone!

But generally if you have 4 X SFP+ slots on your switch, two will be set for stacking using DAC cables.

You need to disable the stacking option on these reserved ports to enable the Ethernet mode.

If you wish to use the front ports for Ethernet you will need to purchase the expansion kits in order to stack them.

[ellie666]

thanks, but I can't work out how to disable the stacking

[Asgard]

Ellie, drop me a PM and I'll walk you through it.

Or I'll log into one of ours shortly and do a step by step.

 

Essentially you change the stacking port to Ethernet and hey presto it works [emoji106]

[Asgard]

System -> Stacking -> Advanced -> Stack Port Configuration

 

Then pick the ports and change "configured stack mode" from Stack to Ethernet.

 

Then hit apply [emoji106]