- Apr 15, 2014
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Hello all! Nerumph here with another perplexing conundrum for one of you bright minds to assist me in resolving!
I recently compiled a fairly substantial kit of homelab equipment comprising of two Dell 710 Six Core rigs, a huge bundle of raw ethernet, two lack rack tables and one, apparently buggy-as-hell, ProSafe GS724T v2, 24 port 10/100/1000 networking switch.
What is the situation preventing me from utilizing all this awesome, juicy hardware you might be asking? Well, for starters, the thing does not seem to want to be discovered on the network... at all. I currently run a Comcast router and modem combo as my DHCP/ routing for my network (part of the reason I have been putting this system together; PfSense FTW!)
The GS724T does not appear in the connected devices panel in the router config, which is very interesting, since all of my iDRAC AND VMWare ip's show up in the connected devices panel.
So the switch is operational... at least as a passive switch. But that is not good enough for me. Apart from wanting to change my username and password from default in the interface, I also am looking to set up LACP between my 4 LAN ports on each server.
Some troubleshooting attempts I have tried as of now:
* In all my diagnosis, I utilized a laptop connected to many different ports on the switch itself.
* Pressed the "reset" switch on the front of the unit. Nada
* Pressed the "factory default" toggle on the front of the unit. Nothing again.
* As said above, did a data mine for all assigned devices on the network with my router config screen. No dice.
* Used Netgear's "Smart Control Center" to try and find the switch. It showed a grand total of 0.
-> This was after disabling both my Bitdefender and Windows firewalls.
* Performed a hard power reset on the router. Did as much as I expected... nothing.
* Changed my laptop's ipv4 address from a 10.0.0.X network to a 192.168.0.X network, and ensured my subnet was adjusted to match at 255.255.255.0 . No change in any of the above diagnosis.
* Tried connecting to the "default ip" as suggested in one forum post (that ip being 192.168.0.239)
* Used LANSpy to attempt a sniff for the router on both a 10x network and a 192x net. No results there.
And... Yea! That's about when I rage quit the damn thing. Any advice on where to go now? I don't really have the opportunity to send it back, unfortunately, as I had purchased the items a while back. Fortunately, it was only 50$, so not too much of a loss if I had to get another one, but still a waste that I would prefer not to make if I don't have to scrap it.
Any help or input (constructive of course) would be welcome!
Thank you for looking through this and I hope to hear from you soon!
Sincerely,
Nerumph
I recently compiled a fairly substantial kit of homelab equipment comprising of two Dell 710 Six Core rigs, a huge bundle of raw ethernet, two lack rack tables and one, apparently buggy-as-hell, ProSafe GS724T v2, 24 port 10/100/1000 networking switch.
What is the situation preventing me from utilizing all this awesome, juicy hardware you might be asking? Well, for starters, the thing does not seem to want to be discovered on the network... at all. I currently run a Comcast router and modem combo as my DHCP/ routing for my network (part of the reason I have been putting this system together; PfSense FTW!)
The GS724T does not appear in the connected devices panel in the router config, which is very interesting, since all of my iDRAC AND VMWare ip's show up in the connected devices panel.
So the switch is operational... at least as a passive switch. But that is not good enough for me. Apart from wanting to change my username and password from default in the interface, I also am looking to set up LACP between my 4 LAN ports on each server.
Some troubleshooting attempts I have tried as of now:
* In all my diagnosis, I utilized a laptop connected to many different ports on the switch itself.
* Pressed the "reset" switch on the front of the unit. Nada
* Pressed the "factory default" toggle on the front of the unit. Nothing again.
* As said above, did a data mine for all assigned devices on the network with my router config screen. No dice.
* Used Netgear's "Smart Control Center" to try and find the switch. It showed a grand total of 0.
-> This was after disabling both my Bitdefender and Windows firewalls.
* Performed a hard power reset on the router. Did as much as I expected... nothing.
* Changed my laptop's ipv4 address from a 10.0.0.X network to a 192.168.0.X network, and ensured my subnet was adjusted to match at 255.255.255.0 . No change in any of the above diagnosis.
* Tried connecting to the "default ip" as suggested in one forum post (that ip being 192.168.0.239)
* Used LANSpy to attempt a sniff for the router on both a 10x network and a 192x net. No results there.
And... Yea! That's about when I rage quit the damn thing. Any advice on where to go now? I don't really have the opportunity to send it back, unfortunately, as I had purchased the items a while back. Fortunately, it was only 50$, so not too much of a loss if I had to get another one, but still a waste that I would prefer not to make if I don't have to scrap it.
Any help or input (constructive of course) would be welcome!
Thank you for looking through this and I hope to hear from you soon!
Sincerely,
Nerumph
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