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after upgrading GS324T to 1.0.0.41 I can't login anymore
I upgraded the firmware of my GS324T to 1.0.0.41 (from the previous 1.0.0.38), but now I can't login anymore. I always get the message Login failure. The strange thing is that the switch seems t...
tessus wrote:
Thanks for pinging Netgear.
This is all I can do because you have done most of the possible troubleshooting with different browsers, systems. This makes it trustworthy to chime Netgear in-
tessus wrote:
Just to clarify your last sentence. I do have a backup from right before I upgraded. So after a factory reset, I'd only have to boot into image 1.0.0.38 and restore the backup. That would give me access to my switch and it would be correctly configured. Or am I missing something?....
Usually, the switch backups taken from the earlier or recent version can be deployed to the current firmware. Release notes show if this should not be possible.
tessus wrote:
Still I think there should be an endpoint I could hit (without having to login) to activate the other image upon next reboot.
The dual image is primary for the case the current one has some functionality issues or as an alternate if a switch is not booting.
Lack of an OOB access, being a dedicated management Ethernet, being a serial console are compared expensive features, this not available in this extreme low cost switch class.
tessus wrote:
It's just that the price of this switch went up by CAD$ 120, which is a lot considering I paid CAD$ 200.
Netgear and many other brands had to change the pricing recently, because chip and component availability, and the complete production line became critical in C19 times.
The June 1st 2022 price change by Netgear is never that much as you show here. Gold digger market over there in Canada?
This is the street price development in CHF (roughly 1:1 USD) from the last three month from a big retailer here in Switzerland. just the June 1st jump comes from Netgear's price update of around 20%.:
Being 6 USD per GbE port or new about 6.65 USD/port is certainly no robbery with lifetime warranty five year warranty for the first buyer.
schumaku wrote:The dual image is primary for the case the current one has some functionality issues or as an alternate if a switch is not booting.
Still not sure how I would switch the image, if there are functionality issues (say one can't login) or when the switch is not booting.
schumaku wrote:
Gold digger market over there in Canada?
Well, Canada has become extremely expensive over the past 10 years. I can't buy from Netgear, but only online stores and resellers. And the price is set at CAD$ 319.99 (that's without tax, btw - all prices in US and Canada are without tax, so in Ontario I have to pay 13% on top). So this switch is CHF 272 at the current conversion rate. You don't want to know what a pint of beer costs. 😉
Wow, taking off VAT it would be 162 CHF or 215 CAD - darn, 320 CAD ex tax is still a ridiculous difference. You don't talk of a GS324TP here? That would make some sense.
Nope, that one would be CAD $449.99 (without tax). Trust me, Canada is expensive.
50-60% of all Canadians are $200 away from bankruptcy, but our politicians are too invested (they get tons of money from these companies) keeping monopolies up (like telco sector - we only have 2 infras and you probably read in the news that half of Canada (including banks and first responders) was offline for about 22h because of an outage). But that's off-topic. Sorry for my rant.
- Not a rant at all. much more like the hard normal citizen facts, citizen like many, you and me. Canada has changed since my last visit to Nortel Ottawa. Another sad story on its own. 8-(
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