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Waywatcher
May 05, 2021Aspirant
M4300 - Switches Reboot from Chrome when accessing by FQDN name - All the way back to 12.0.7.9.
TL/DR: My desktop Chrome browswer has the magical ability to force any m4300 stack in my environment to reboot just by accessing it by fqdn. e.g http://switchname.company.com. Other posts and thread...
Waywatcher
May 05, 2021Aspirant
Netgear Testing:
New Name - Changed the the bottom switch to xxx-test. Rebooted. Updated hosts on desktop. Attempted to access xxx-test.company.com and was able to access the webpage without a crash. Opened multiple windows and on the 3rd window I signed in. CRASH!
After the restart I canceled the retry on the browser that crashed it. Moved over to another window that was not using the cheetah_login.html path. Refresh = crash #2.
After power off continued to crash.
Netgear Testing:
PW Change - Changed the password, saved config, restarted the switch. Confirmed password held. Desktop refresh = Crash. Reboot and Desktop Refresh = Crash. Power off the machine complete. After reboot and desktop refresh = Crash.
After a full power down and refresh = Crash.
Netgear Testing:
Factory Default - Reset bottom to factory default. Changed IP to 1company IP. Crash resumed. Changed subnet on switch to 255.255.255.0. Could not discover the switch from desktop. Set desktop to same subnet, it was flagged as out of range for our subnet and did not work to help connect with the switch. Reverted both subnets on switch and desktop, crash resumed.
Netgear Testing:
Mid Switch - 12.0.2.20 and 12.0.4.9 = No crash. Multiple attempts to repro the crash without luck.
Bot Switch - Still Factory default FW changed to 12.0.7.17. The web address is still using the older value without /v1/ that we are seeing in 12.0.8.15 and up = Crash.
I moved back to mid switch to see if I was no longer safe and could not force a crash.
2nd try on 12.0.7.17 = crash.
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