[asterisk-users] PoE switch recommendations?

[Daniel Hazelbaker]

On Oct 7, 2008, at 4:19 AM, Chris Bagnall wrote:

>> I recently purchased a few SRW208P switches.  They work fine.  If you
>> run Windows.  Granted a lot of people run windows instead of Mac or
>> Linux, but be aware (to those looking) that the SRW line of switches
>> REQUIRE Internet Explorer on Windows.  The support site says it is
>> recommended, but even the login page does not work properly on
>> anything but IE on Windows.  For me, as a Mac user, it is enough to
>> not buy any more of those ever again.
>
> That's very strange, I've used FF2 and 3 under Linux plenty of times  
> to configure the SRW224P units. I'd have thought the web interfaces  
> would be pretty similar between the models.

I have not personally tried using FF under Linux with these, though I  
ran across a number of posts that say it doesn't work.  I know FF2 and  
the latest FF3 don't work under Mac (don't work for the SRW that is)  
and I know they don't work on Windows. (Linksys' official statement is  
to use that ietab plugin that embeds IE in a firefox tab).  I would  
expect FF to behave the same as far as what works and doesn't in all 3  
environments, but maybe not.  I'll install FF3 on my Linux server and  
try as that would be more convenient than firing up Parallels  
everytime I need to change a config option in the switch.  On Win/Mac  
it lets you log in but the "main menu" screen is blank, nothing to  
click on, just the background template. *shrug*  Seeing as we already  
need more than the 8 ports I think I'll stick to the 24/48 port  
versions anyway.

> Regards,
>
> Chris

Daniel