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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 for our various setups and these switches haven't disapointed yet. However , when it comes to configuring them, the fact one is incapable of selecting the vlan on which the things do their DHCP negotiating forces me to use fixed IP's. In essence this isn't all that bad. But adding this to the firmware isn't something unreasonable to ask I would think. http://i.imgur.com/JZEvBx4.png http://i.imgur.com/p9evrYY.png Thanks in advance for taking the time to reply. If you also think this slight oversight should be rectified please do reply.
About posted ideas in general
Hello my name is Peter and I posted some requests about essential functions on the GS1xxE series of switches. It seems there have been some ideas posted here but there is no respons whether these things are being implemented or not or any timeframe given. I personally had a request about adding a menu in the GS1XXE switches to enter some allowed mac addresses to prevent a user to connect some rogue equipment on the network. Could it be that the chipset does not support such functionality! Couldn't you post back that the engineers are working with this, this and this function and it will be ready in 1-3 months or something. Anyways a definitive answer would be appreciated so that I may peruse other brands that has similar 5-port switches. Regards PeterMake config files as compatible as possible across firmware updates
I've had an unfair share of trouble when trying to restore saved configuration files (.cfg config) to GS108Ev2 running firmware 1.00.12. Eventually, I gave up and reprogrammed 3 switches from scratch. I had to go through the whole building to locate them. Brought with myself a laptop and had a phone handy to talk to a guy in the control room. I think I found out what happened: Older versions of the Plus Utility do not support the password encryption required by V1.00.10 firmware. The old config files had unencrypted passwords (I checked with a hex editor). The new firmware expects its password encrypted, so it couldn't load the old password. I was locked out of the switches. A cleartext header in the config file could help, so the switch (or the user!) knows which firmware version saved the config. If you want to make it really functional, have the firmware perform appropriate checks at load (restore) time, so old unencrypted passwords keep on working on new firmware versions.The IGMP Snooping Static Router Port setting on GS108PEv3
The IGMP Snooping Static Router Port setting on GS105PE was originally not available on that model, but it was later added after a request to add it and was provided by updating the firmware. Our engineers will now review if it will be possible to add it on the GS108PEv3 and we need to log it as a request however we will not be able provide you an estimated time of release. We will have to wait and see it on the future firmware update of the product.Simple port security
Hello there my name is Peter. I would like a function to be added to these series of switches that prevents a rouge user to connect equipment to any port and gain access to the network or disturb/bring it down with maybe a CAM overflow attack. It would work such that if an unreasonable amount of connection attempts with different mac adresses occurs - it disables that port or something. A better idea would be to use DHCP snooping in the switch so we could enter allowed MAC and IP adresses in the router instead. I know that switches like GS108Tv2 probably supports this however there is no GS105T small 5-port version available so I am forced using GS105Ev2 instead which is a nice little switch indeed. If DHCP snooping is too complex maybe you could add a little menue instead so we could enter a couple of MAC adresses allowed on each port. Thanks sincerely Peter
