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GS1xxE and their PoE equivalents. Getting them an IP using DHCP on a specific vlan.
Hello to anyone taking the time to read this.
I have close to a dozen netgear GS1xxE switches at my home and various family member's homes by now and swear by the things. Vlan tagging is a must...
It's almost been 2 years now.
These are the switches I buy most, not only for me but also for family and some small workplace installations.
This is the only painful point in these switches. If you use DHCP the switch get's it's IP from the vlan that delivers it the fastest. Which is a huge problem for me since one of my vlans has an ISP cable modem on it. you can see the security issues from having a switch that requests and gets a WAN IP I bet...
If a fixed IP is used that fixed ip is approachable from any VLAN that has ip's in that range!! This is also a major security issue.
As it is now, I have to use a fixed class C public IP for configuration and change it to an unused subnet after use.
I'm not even sure my ISP drops class C public ip packets in it's first hop routers. If it doesn't any smartass that manually puts in a class c IP that's in the range I leave my switch in can start hacking it.
Please fix this. Please allow us to specify the VLAN the switch uses for configuration instead of using all VLANs.
This is not a detail. This is a major security flaw. Vlans are supposed to be isolated.
Thank you for taking the time to read this.