I have no idea if this helps at all, but there are a variety of Realtek rtl838x-based switches that run OpenWrt. I have a Netgear GS108Tv3, which doesn't have PoE, but I *believe* some of them do, e.g. perhaps the Zyxel GS1900-8HP v2. Presumably, the PoE state is controlled from gpio's. I imagine it *might* be possible to hack the bootloader to set the GPIOs to enable PoE before the full boot has finished.
On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 9:58 AM Galen Seitz <gal...@seitzassoc.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Thanks for the PoE switch suggestions. It looks like Extreme Networks > (X435-8P-4S) and Juniper might actually have some non-astronomically > priced switches that would do what we want. Netgear has some switches > (GS110TUP and GS710TUP) with a feature they call Uninterrupted PoE, > which seems to be the same as Cisco's Perpetual PoE. Unfortunately the > user's manual doesn't mention anything about a fast boot feature. > Whatever we end up choosing, we will probably need to get a device in > our hands to really know for certain whether it is going to work for us. > In the next few years I expect that the Perpetual and Fast Boot PoE > features will migrate down to more SOHO products. > > Regarding the suggestion of PoE injection, I should have mentioned that > we have a minimum of 8 PoE devices, so using injection would be pretty > ugly from a cabling perspective. Thanks for the idea though. > > galen > -- > Galen Seitz > gal...@seitzassoc.com
