Not much is available on the internet discussing the firmware provided by Quanta for this switch. It seems to be a little brother to the LB9 switch, and shares most functionality.
This particular switch was obtained secondhand from ebay for $130, so the history and prior configuration is unknown. The CF card was removed, so it is running only from the image(s) on the flash.
It boots into a functional FASTPATH environment, but the version doesn't seem to be quite right for the hardware, I get two errors on boot :
ifconfig: SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device net eth0: could not attach to PHY
These refer to the management ports (a BCM5482, ETH1/ETH2 on front panel), which don't work with the linux image.
There's also some oddity about how the version of the software is numbered, 2.0.0.1 seems marvelously round to me.
(Switching) #show hardware Switch: 1 System Description............................. Quanta LB9A, 2.0.0.1, Linux 2.6.34.6, U-Boot 2009.06 (Apr 19 2011 - 15:59:24) Machine Type................................... Quanta LB9A Machine Model.................................. LB9A Serial Number.................................. QTFCA62220249 FRU Number..................................... 1LB9BZZ0STH Part Number.................................... BCM56538 Maintenance Level.............................. A Manufacturer................................... 0xbc00 Burned In MAC Address.......................... 04:7D:7B:B0:A8:8C Software Version............................... 2.0.0.1 Operating System............................... Linux 2.6.34.6 Network Processing Device...................... BCM56538_B0 Additional Packages............................ QOS IPv6 Management Data Center OpEN API Prototype Open API
The u-boot version is quite old, but using the md command I dumped the firmware to a serial log and used this utility to convert it to a straight hex dump. This should be in files (memdump.bin)
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