Category Archives: Hardware

Connecting SFP-RJ45 Modules to the Cisco 6500

It took a couple of days ago to the Cisco Catalyst 6509-E in which there were modules only with SFP ports to connect a few links with RJ45.

Since RJ45 links are small, it was more economical to use SFP-RJ45 modules, so they were ordered.
I connected them to the ports WS-X6724-SFP, but nothing was displayed in the logs.

Let’s write commands so that Cisco does not disable ports when inserting unsupported modules:

service unsupported-transceiver
no errdisable detect cause sfp-config-mismatch
no errdisable detect cause gbic-invalid

I note that the ports WS-X6724-SFP in my case work only at 1Gb speed, so the link will not naturally rise to 100Mb or 10MB, although the Foxgate SFP-RJ45 modules that we had and support 10/100/1000.

In confirmation of this I checked the commands:

configure t
interface gigabitEthernet 1/1
speed ?

What was the opportunity to specify the speed of the port only in 1000.

See also:
Configure Cisco Catalyst 6509-E

The solution to the error “Service virtual port has existed already”

I noticed once on Huawei MA5683T when I added the service port for ONT the following error:

Failure: Service virtual port has existed already

As reported by the error, the service port is already registered for this ONT.
In my case, there was simply a misprint in ONT ID, it was accidentally indicated by the wrong one, after specifying the correct service port, it was registered.

And if you need to register several service port for one ONT, then see my article – Adding an ONT with trunk port to Huawei SmartAX MA5683T

Adding an ONT with trunk port to Huawei SmartAX MA5683T

Here is an example of adding ONT so that at the output of the ethernet port all VLANs are tagged.
Suppose OLT is configured for my article – Configuring Huawei SmartAX MA5683T through the console.
ONT for the test I’ll take TP-Link GP110 with the configured mode transparent and off DHCP, well, in fact with other single-port ethernet ONT setting is similar.

Continue reading “Adding an ONT with trunk port to Huawei SmartAX MA5683T”

Hard reset on Samsung Galaxy J5

For example, perform a full reset of the Samsung Galaxy J5

1) First you need to turn off the phone.

2) Press the volume addition key at the same time, home (oval below) and the power key, keep them all three before the Samsung logo appears, then release.

3) With the volume keys, select “wipe data / factory reset” in the list, and select the power key (possibly also with the Home key), in the next window select “ Yes ” in the same way. And lastly select “ reboot system now ”

Done, the phone will start with completely reset settings and remote user data, such as applications, contacts, etc.

Canon EOS 500D / Rebel T1i Firmware Update

On the test, I will update the firmware 1.1.0 to 1.1.2 in the Canon EOS 500D / Rebel T1i.

First of all, let’s see if there is a newer version on the official siteе and if there is – download it.
https://www.usa.canon.com/internet/portal/us/home/support/details/cameras/support-dslr/eos-rebel-t1i?subtab=downloads-firmware

Unpack the archive with the firmware, in my case I needed one file E7KR6112.FIR

The memory card is pulled out of the camera and connected through the card reader to the computer, we drop the firmware file on it. Through a USB cord directly to a card to write down a file the camera has not given.

We will safely remove the memory card and return it to the camera.

On the camera, set the mode “P” and turn it on, press the “MENU” button, select the yellow key, then “Built-in software ver. … “, agree with the replacement of the current software by selecting” OK “, then follow the prompts on the screen.

Watch the video how I performed the update:

Configuring DHCP relay on Cisco

On the test, I’ll take the Cisco Catalyst 6509-E switch and configure it to forward DHCP packets to the DHCP server.
The switch is configured as L3 with assigned IP addresses in each VLAN.

Connect to the switch through the console or telnet and go to the configuration mode:

enable
configure t

Let’s assume the DHCP server address is 192.168.11.1 and we want to configure the transfer of DHCP broadcast packets to it on VLAN 100, for this we execute the commands:

interface Vlan100
ip helper-address 192.168.11.1
exit

Exit the configuration mode and save the configuration:

exit
write

Done.