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...
While is it disgusting that this item is just sitting here, I would like to add this advice to others trying to use these switches:
Don't use these switches. This problem will never be fixed. After messing with the switch for a while, it is obvious this is a non-VLAN switch design that someone hacked basic VLAN support into. Perhaps they got a new revision of the chip they use and it supported VLANs and they had some intern hack it together. But it isn't a VLAN-ready switch, because significant parts of it are not VLAN-aware, like the administration system for example. I returned mine as "doesn't support what it advertises" because these will never be worth my time (nor yours.)
You can get great results with GS110TP (which is a real VLAN switch) and GS108T hanging off of them where you need a second tier VLAN switch.
Trying to use the GS1xxE in a VLAN deployment is just wasting your time.