On Jul 13, 2005, at 8:07 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The fact that it is a piece of junk (FSM7326P)! Bought two, both
had bad flash after a firmware upgrade (tried one, talked with
Netgear and vendor, and tried the other once a replacement was
here)... No secondary flash either.
I needed to upgrade the firmware because the switch had MAJOR
software and interface bugs to the point where it was unusable on
a fairly standard corporate network with LACP, GVRP, 802.1p/q, etc.
As a matter of fact, I have nothing positive to say about
them whatsoever (although I think they do run Linux, which is
neat, I guess).
I am sure some people have had success with them, I just
haven't heard about it!
I am somewhat interested in Dell's new offerings of 24 and 48
port PoE switches, I would love to try those out...
P.S. - They're really more of a purple, at least here in the US...
That's a shame. I've always had a lot of respect for NetGear -
all of their stuff has just worked for me in the past. Do you
think they just released it before the code was ready, or do you
think it's irretrievable ?
I have several FSM7326P installed and they are working great.
There are a couple things to note though. First is I am running the
open source code available for download from their site. If you are
familier with Cisco CLI then this will be very easy to work with.
Also I do believe there is(was) a bug when using this code where if
you were using the WWW interface then you should look but not
change anything, use CLI for changes - my preference anyway. Also
when upgrading you need to wipe out the old config before it will
boot. They do have good documentation on their site for all this
and I have found them to be pretty straightforward boxes, but
definately run the newer code - they did have some issues with
minor items last year.
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