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Why cheap ethernet switches are cheap and nasty
Mon, 2008-10-06 16:27 — nickSo, today's job was to upgrade a pair of D-Link switches in the office. They're relatively recent jobs: a DGS-1216T and a DGS-1224T. Both managed and gigabit ethernet capable, with various bells and whistles.
The boxes had been irritating me for some while because the VLAN configuration web interface had clearly been designed by some stupid web developer who only used IE6. As a result, you could only create new VLANs if you used IE6, or if you turned off CSS completely. Nice one, guys - I just love your testing procedures!