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Jeremyse's avatar
Jeremyse
Tutor
Jun 09, 2020
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Uplink IP

I have another curious issue.  I am running multiple switches in my environment and when I look at the connected neighbors every link between the switches has a foreign IP that does not match the IP ...
  • DaneA's avatar
    DaneA
    Jun 15, 2020

    Jeremyse,

     

    I got your private message and forwarded the diagnostics file to the higher tier of NETGEAR Support to check it. 

     

    I just got feedback and it was confirmed that there are network parameters set to 169.254.0.239.  This is the cause on why the switch advertise this as its Mngt IP Address.  The only way to clear this is to factory reset the switch and reconfigure it.  To reconfigure it, be sure to delete it from NETGEAR Insight then re-add it.  Do NOT reload the configuration on the switch but be sure to reconfigure the settings via NETGEAR Insight. 


     

    Regards,

     

    DaneA

    NETGEAR Community Team

schumaku's avatar
schumaku
Guru - Experienced User
Jun 22, 2020

Does it have any practical impact on the network operations, on the Insight management, or on some 3rd part network discovery and management tool (I know here it can cause a prom of course)? Or is it for now purely cosmetic?

Jeremyse wrote:

schumakuSo basically wait until the next firmware revision?  Nice.. 

First Netgear has to admit and understand the issue. It might be "configured" - however not intentionally and explicitly by the user. Much more it looks ot me like an automatic default.

 

Jeremyse wrote:

At least with Cisco they will create a custom version for me. I guss it helps to have 4000 switches under smart net lol 

Not a problem on switches with a very different price tag and a 20% p.a. support contract.

 

 

Jeremyse's avatar
Jeremyse
Tutor
Jun 22, 2020

schumaku 

All valid points! Cosmetic so far, until it isn't.  With this "potential bug" I don't know what I don't know hence the reason for the post. It isn't correct behavior,  cosmetically speaking or not and my dhcp server is logging the IPs as invalid on the mgmt VLAN, so there is a problem although I see no impact to the traffic atm..

 

Thanks for the help everyone!

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