[Asterisk-biz] Talking of PoE ...

[Jerry Jones]

On Jul 13, 2005, at 8:07 AM, jjones at quiddesign.com 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.
>