Myricom 16 Port Switch and Clos 64 Tools

Myricom switch products work without user intervention, but customers may want further control over a switch. Myricom provides in one package the full source code and precompiled binaries for its switch firmware and tools.

The M2L-SW16 family of switches has an Ethernet (10-BaseT) port for out-of-band monitoring of the switch. The switch is labeled with its Ethernet ID (48-bit UID). To enable IP access you must have a RARP server on the same Ethernet as the switch. Once the switch gets its IP address via RARP, the tools mentioned below will operate. The SNMP MIB supported by the M2L-SW16 switch is available here .

The latest switch software release is release-1-7.tar.gz You must request the login and password for Myricom software access.

After gunzipping and untaring the files, for the latest documentation on the switch tools, see:

release-*/README

For release-1-7, here is the README

There are two switch tools:

bob_test is an interface to switch counters and control registers.
hex2flash is a program for reprogramming the switch firmware in the field.

They are precompiled in architecture specific directories:

release-*/config/user_sixteen/hp_hpux
release-*/config/user_sixteen/intel_linux
release-*/config/user_sixteen/sparc_solaris
release-*/config/user_sixteen/sparc_sunOS

There is also a small java 2 clos switch demo program (download with "Save link as") in myricom.jar . It shows real time traffic inside a clos switch.

usr/java1.2/bin/java -classpath ./myricom.jar myricom/Clos
usage: java -cp myricom.jar myricom/Clos
-host (switch name)
[-glenn-colors]
[-hide-lines]
[-milliseconds (number)]
[-test]