With the firmware and software image files ready. I picked up some older Baystack 55 switches (both POE and non POE) from Ebay and they have worked great Rock solid and not lacking for features, plus you can find them cheap enough to buy multiple and still stay in budget and have some for backup if the first one fails. ALWAYS update the firmware first! I’ve got a TFTP server setup on my laptop (see links below). BayStack 5520 Switches can download a user-editable ASCII configuration file. Nortel / Avaya switches have a software image and a firmware file. WARNING: Requires downtime, (2x reboots). BayStack 5510 Switches can download a user. Nortel / Avaya Switches Update the Firmware / Software The NNCLI is used through a Telnet session or through the serial port on the console. You can power up to 48 ports at 6.6 W for each port with this configuration. power source only option, you have a total of 320 watts of available power. Using the Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 5520-PWR switch and its internal. This is normal, you need to press CTRL+Y before you will get to command prompt. This module describes the internal power source only option. Though I did discover that the Cisco SMB switches also use the same cable.Ĭonsole: When connected it may look like nothing is happening, pressing enter etc shows no output. WARNING: The console cable is NOT the same pinout as a normal console cable, it’s a straight through cable, (not a rollover cable). I’m carrying the following out via console cable, the settings are the same as you would expect for a Cisco/HP switch, i.e. So this post is an eclectic collection of the various things I had to do, and worked out for the future. I was replacing an old 10/100 Cisco 3750 switch with a Nortel 4526GTX this week, and thought I’d take some notes for the common things I do, just in case I have to do another. I don’t often use Nortel (now Avaya) switches, I know they are decent, but in my day job I usually work on Cisco, occasionally HP, and other cheap assorted nastiness switches.

Baystack 5520 serial port settings