Firmware 7.3.1.7

Markwirez wrote:
Don't know about the support but I am seriously interested in the outcome as I am about to purchase 2 GSM7328s's for my Network Core with about 8 stacks of 5 GS748TS's at the access layer. I may hold off on this purchase for the time being. Do you have any other comments of wisdom on these switch's?♦

Well, we did have an experience where one of our more powerful servers flooded the switch with 400 million PPS of ARPs during an incident involving misconfigured LACP on the server side (~190 million PPS is the maximum that the switch can handle, IIRC) . The switches didn't like that (~90% packet loss, no management access). ;)

As soon as the problem machine was disconnected, though, everything returned to normal. The switches didn't even reload.

The moral of the story is that the switch hardware seems up to the task even if the GUI/CLI seems a bit fragile. If Netgear's firmware guys can harden things a bit, these switches will be everything we wanted.


On a completely different topic, this hard crash is 100% reproducible. It leaves no console log messages even at the debug level. It just instantly locks hard before any messages make it out to the console log.