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GS308E Access Management Site
Hello, I currently used two GS305e at different locations at home. Between the switches I used a trunc-connection with VLAN 101 (192.168.2.0/24) and VLAN 200 (192.168.10.0/24) on Port 5. Port 5 i...
Final State:
from Support ...
"We have received an update from the Engineering team, who could reproduce the issue and find the root cause.
The root cause is GS308E chip can't reply to ARP with the tag however, GS305E can send the reply to ARP with the tag."
"It is a Hardware limitation. It cannot be fixed by software updates." ☹️
Workarround should be use PVID (@GS305E) to retagging packets from GS308E, but it's no solution for direct connections from other hardware with 802.1Q.
Ticket is closed.
That is beyond ridiculous... So they're saying that the chip supports tagging all other traffic, but is unable to tag its own? And what about the second issue when the replies are broadcast on all ports? Is it another "hardware limitation"? I think I'm done with Netgear...
waxar wrote:
That is beyond ridiculous... So they're saying that the chip supports tagging all other traffic, but is unable to tag its own?
Reality is: These are making use of configurable switch chips.
waxar wrote: I think I'm done with Netgear...These re indeed chipset limitations, several vendors offer the almost exact same devices and the similar variance, some direct chipset related, some related to the earlier mentioned microcontroller implementation.
If you expect strict managed VLAN, buy switches supporting this.
schumaku I guess this is what happens when millennials are in charge of writing firmware. And you once again avoided addressing the second issue - broadcasting management traffic on all ports - which is much more severe than the first one.
This could even be microcode issue on that switch chip. The firmware people (which just set some bits to the behavior of the switch like on an embedded device don't have control over it. To what I can see, the switch code is not a loaded module, probably burned-in with the manufacturing.
Please understand I'm not Netgear, just yet another user, and are not very keen buying hardware (this GS3x series if for certain specific sales channels) just for reproducing each and every potential nicely reported issue.
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