Jerry Jones wrote:
On Jul 13, 2005, at 8:07 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The fact that it is a piece of junk (FSM7326P)! Bought two, both had
bad flash after a firmware upgrade (tried one, talked with Netgear
and vendor, and tried the other once a replacement was here)... No
secondary flash either.
I needed to upgrade the firmware because the switch had MAJOR
software and interface bugs to the point where it was unusable on a
fairly standard corporate network with LACP, GVRP, 802.1p/q, etc.
As a matter of fact, I have nothing positive to say about them
whatsoever (although I think they do run Linux, which is neat, I
guess).
I am sure some people have had success with them, I just
haven't heard about it!
I am somewhat interested in Dell's new offerings of 24 and 48
port PoE switches, I would love to try those out...
P.S. - They're really more of a purple, at least here in the US...
That's a shame. I've always had a lot of respect for NetGear - all
of their stuff has just worked for me in the past. Do you think they
just released it before the code was ready, or do you think it's
irretrievable ?
I have several FSM7326P installed and they are working great.
There are a couple things to note though. First is I am running the
open source code available for download from their site. If you are
familier with Cisco CLI then this will be very easy to work with.
Also I do believe there is(was) a bug when using this code where if
you were using the WWW interface then you should look but not change
anything, use CLI for changes - my preference anyway. Also when
upgrading you need to wipe out the old config before it will boot.
They do have good documentation on their site for all this and I have
found them to be pretty straightforward boxes, but definately run the
newer code - they did have some issues with minor items last year.
After my initial experience, my confidence in that switch was shaken.
Even with the "couple things" that you note, you have to wonder what
else is buggy on a product with such obvious bugs. I want my switches
to be ROCK SOLID, when I have to diagnose network issues, I don't want
to add "Is the XYZ feature on the FSM7326P broken like everything else?"
to the mix...
--
Kristian Kielhofner
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