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Advice on managing old GS108PEv2 and GS108Ev3 switches?
My homelab is populated with much older 2nd hand Netgear ProSAFE switches, specifically 2 GS108PEv2 and 3 GS108Ev3. My understanding is that these need to be managed with the ProSafe Plus Utility, w...
The simple IP stack implemented on a basic uController (8051-style) Plus switch can never recognize VLAN tags flowing to the switch over a tagged connection - neither for the management, nor for the pure discovery. That's the way it is. To get the discovery and where available (on the GS108Ev3) the simple WebUI and the discovery (GS108PEv2) is reachable when using untagged frames only - this is the cost we pay for an unmanaged core switch at the price tag of an unmanaged switch with select config capabilities only.
The only trick required is to operate the management network and IP subnet untagged.
Understood, that makes sense. I had a colleague suggest there may be something to do with multicast routing, but that's way over my head. Thanks!
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