Re: Quanta LB4M

[Brielle Bruns <bruns () 2mbit com>]

On 6/28/15 12:50 PM, Mike Hammett wrote:
> Has anyone gotten a "non-factory" firmware to go onto these guys? There are a couple threads on Google that are inconclusive. There 
> are rumors that it's the same as a Dell something or an HP something else, but no one has outright said, "I loaded a Dell XXXX 
> firmware onto it and solved all of the random ass bugs."
>
> If I didn't already have a couple of stacked Extreme x400s, I'd consider these at home, but they're somewhat buggy.
>
> Quanta told me to contact whomever I bought it from... but I don't think the random guy on eBay is going to have much 
> of anything useful to say.


Oh FSM, those things.  Urgh.

They are like the EIF24G series and 10GCF from Foundry - OEM devices 
that vendors can just rebrand with their own logos and sell.

I've tried swapping the firmware on the EIF24G-As and the Dell 
equivalent, and its been a miss every time.  Got several of them at one 
point with 'defective ports' that magically got fixed with a firmware 
upgrade.

Even with the firmware upgrades, STP was a hot mess on them causing odd 
blocking situations.

Your better off going with something like the new Ubiquiti EdgeSwitch Lite.


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Brielle Bruns
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