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I have a GS105Ev2 that I plugged into my network today. All I have plugged into that is the cable to another switch and my laptop. My laptop gets an IP address from DHCP (192.168.87.43) just fine but the switch has the factory default (192.168.0.239). When I try to browse to http://192.168.0.239 it fails (as I expect it would). The NETGEAR Switch Discovery Tool does see it but I can't get to it. I've rebooted and factory reset many times and it won't pick up a different address.
I tried re-IPing my laptop to 192.168.0.210 as suggested in the manual and disconnected the switch from my network. The NETGEAR Switch Discovery Tool does see it but I can't get to it.
I guess I have two problems:
1. The switch isn't getting its configuration from DHCP
2. I can't browse to the switch even when I set my laptop's IP address to be on the same network as the switch
My laptop gets an IP address from DHCP (192.168.87.43) just fine but the switch has the factory default (192.168.0.239). When I try to browse to http://192.168.0.239 it fails (as I expect it would).
You can't reach the 192.168.0.239/24 IP address because your LAN subnet is configured to 192.168.87.0/24 - two different IPv4 subnetworks.
The NETGEAR Switch Discovery Tool does see it but I can't get to it. I've rebooted and factory reset many times and it won't pick up a different address.
The discovery does work on a different protocol - it can discover switches (while connected to the same LAN or broadcast domain). As explained above, the Netgear Switch Discovery Tool does use IPv4 to connect, resp. call a web browser with the discovered IP.
I tried re-IPing my laptop to 192.168.0.210 as suggested in the manual and disconnected the switch from my network. The NETGEAR Switch Discovery Tool does see it but I can't get to it.
Double check the subnet is set to 192.168.0.0/24 (255.255.255.0) - if there is a smaller mask, the IP connection might fail again because of potentially multiple IP subnets again.
To exclude the impossible, try another port; try another network cable, ....
One more idea (silly me checked the GS108Ev2 before): Does the discovery tool show a switch firmware version version number before 1.3.0.1? Reson asking is because of very early firmware (1.2.x.x) does not come with a Web GUI, and it was mainly an early factory firmware. In this case (I hope you have a Windows system at hand!), you need to go the hard way and use the ProSAFE Plus Configuration Utility _before_ the curent 2.7.2, e.g. https://kb.netgear.com/000051197/ProSAFE-Plus-Configuration-Utility-v2-5-3 for backward compatibility.
Ok, this is is it: You got a switch with a specific customer/project specific firmware. Updating with the utility however to the current one should be possible. Look here FMI: GS105Ev2 FW reads v5.4.0.3
