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I wish cheap serial-port managed switches were a thing. The reasonably cheap managed switches often expose the management interface on all ports, even all VLA
by BobbyTables2 1y ago
I wish cheap serial-port managed switches were a thing.
The reasonably cheap managed switches often expose the management interface on all ports, even all VLANs (with no way turn it off).
It’s frustrating that this is just a software limitation - the hardware is damn capable of much more.
Hell, I’d love to have a switch where the management interface was an I2C port that I could plug into just for reprogramming.
Really just want dumb VLANs, no fancy RSTP or such.
- PhilipRoman 1y agoFYI Zyxel consumer switches seem to be more secure in this regard (I had a GS1200). But yeah, even the enterprisey switches have braindead defaults like loading configuration from tftp at startup.