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randyha
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Apr 07, 2021
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Discovery utility: add IP address reset feature

The ProSAFE Plus Configuration Utility, which no longer will load on my Win10 machine and is also eol, had a "refresh IP address" feature that would trigger DCHP refresh in case the switch was on the wrong subnet.  When I found that the ProSAFE Plus Configuration Utility v2.7.8, newly installed, would not run on my Win10 machine, I ran its apparent successor, the Netgear Switch Discovery tool v1.2.103.  It has a nicer UI, and I get that you're trying to move users to the switch's web GUI for most functions.  But there's a bootstrapping problem.  My switch was on the wrong subnet, and the Discovery utility has no feature for triggering DHCP refresh that I could find.  I had to manually trigger DHCP refresh by powering down/up the switch.  So, please add a DHCP IP address refresh to the Discovery utility.

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