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DoctorWizard
May 11, 2020Aspirant
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I'm a fan of Netgear, have a bunch of Netgear routers and switches and am quite familiar with them. I was excited to find a GS105Ev2 at a thrift store for a mere $3. Not knowing from where it origi...
- May 11, 2020
The switch as you bought it is _not_ a Netgear version as sold and marketed with the GS105Ev2 (GS105E-200NAS) - it's coming from some batches intended for an OEM, and has no Web UI (and probably other restrictions) and might be labeled as GS105E-2A1NAS.
It's possible to change the firmware to the standard Netgear one uing the (obsolete, but OK for this purpose) Netgear ProSafe Plus Configuration Utility (available for Windows only I'm afraid).
This was discussed e.g. here https://community.netgear.com/t5/Managed-Switches/GS105Ev2-FW-reads-v5-4-0-3/m-p/1562266/highlight/true and several times again since - Google is your friend.
schumaku
May 11, 2020Guru - Experienced User
The switch as you bought it is _not_ a Netgear version as sold and marketed with the GS105Ev2 (GS105E-200NAS) - it's coming from some batches intended for an OEM, and has no Web UI (and probably other restrictions) and might be labeled as GS105E-2A1NAS.
It's possible to change the firmware to the standard Netgear one uing the (obsolete, but OK for this purpose) Netgear ProSafe Plus Configuration Utility (available for Windows only I'm afraid).
This was discussed e.g. here https://community.netgear.com/t5/Managed-Switches/GS105Ev2-FW-reads-v5-4-0-3/m-p/1562266/highlight/true and several times again since - Google is your friend.
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