CISCO SG500 custom firmware

[Pavel Horniak]

Hi. I have managed switch CISCO SG500-28-59 V04.
CISCO firmware is little bit hard to configure.
Is there any custom firmware for it? Like OpenWRT , DD-WRT or TOMATO?

And what chipset it uses? i dont found any answer online, under case is heatsink on chipset, and i dont want to remove it.

Thanx.

 

[bill001g]

Not a chance, that is a commercial switch not a consumer device.

Besides it is a basic layer3 switch and like most switches anything that can not be done without delaying the data is not supported. The key one for most people trying to use these at home is it can not do NAT or VPN. It uses asic chips to run things quickly and even if cisco gave out enough information to build firmware it is really different than a full blown cpu that run in a router.

Now it is a very nice switch when you need some simple routing within the site.

 

[Pavel Horniak]

Not a chance, that is a commercial switch not a consumer device.

Besides it is a basic layer3 switch and like most switches anything that can not be done without delaying the data is not supported. The key one for most people trying to use these at home is it can not do NAT or VPN. It uses asic chips to run things quickly and even if cisco gave out enough information to build firmware it is really different than a full blown cpu that run in a router.

Now it is a very nice switch when you need some simple routing within the site.

I just want to use it to split two internet connections (2x WAN) to one faster. Both internet connections running own DHCP.
Is it possible with this firmware? because now is it working like switch, and what i want is router function.

 

[bill001g]

Even if you had a actual load balancer you can not combine 2 internet connection to get 1 faster one. They have 2 different ip addresses and that causes massive issue when you attempt to send traffic from the same machine over both. Pretty much the only function a dual wan router can do well is primary and backup connections. It is a massive undertaking to get it to even partially use both connections because of the issue of the connections having different ip addresses.

Pretty much all you can accomplish is to allow the 2 groups of devices to talk to each other. Say you had 1 group on 192.168.1.x and the other group on 192.168.2.x you could allow them to talk but still continue to use their own internet connection.

You could likely do things like route say game traffic over one ISP and file downloads over the other but it is not that simplistic to configure since you would have to get lists of actual ip addresses.