I’ve got 3 of these looking for a good home, 48 port Gigabit, web managed
Downside is due to the old crypto onboard, needs IE8 on Windows (or older)
to manage it from the web, can also manage it via cli via serial cable.
You’ll have to come pickup from East Van though. If there is a use for these
at the space itself, preference would go to that use.
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I managed a deployment of 50+ of these back in 2008. Advanced layer 2 and most layer 3 features had all sorts of random glitches. We ended up restricting them to only do VLAN tagging and trunking. Some of the pains were hard lock-ups that required power off reset and some other ones would corrupt their configurations so badly they would spill traffic across VLANs without warning. fun fun fun.
They had an easter egg telnet session that could be opened remotely and you would get access to most of the gui features through a text-based menu. At least all the safe features were available.
Oh yeah, the most fun hardware bug i found on them was that a port would fail after some time in the field. The port would behave normally, until a series of large MTU packets would go through the failed port (anything over 1100 MTU if I remember correctly) after that point large packets would get corrupted if vlan tagging was enabled on the port. It required a link down/up to recover.
Enjoy the loud fans
Other than that, they were decent ethernet switches.
