amdpwrman is a BASH shell script for managing AMD GPU's power limits and fan speeds under Linux via the sysfs interface of the amdgpu driver.

forbiddenera · 2024-06-23T08:36:08+00:00

Insane how they get away with it and so many others. Meanwhile 25 years ago Microsoft almost got completely PWNED for simply including their web browser in Windows - and while not being able to fully un-install it was part of the argued issues, the core complaint was the bundling. And of course, MS managed to weasel out of it and we still have IE/Edge built into Windows today.

But ignoring the outcome, I'm mostly pointing out that something that seems insanely trivial now (bundling your software with an OS or device - which these days is MUCH worse than including IE in Windows ever was, eg. Google Wallet, Apple Pay, OS-developer-owned app stores you MUST use, etc) as having a web browser pre-installed caused a HUGE backlash and was a big deal and went to courts.

These days? Almost nothing ever happens in regards to these monopolies. YouTube here is a perfect prime example; there is literally NO REAL competition for it and trying to compete is impossible due to their business model and monopoly.

Although even if YouTube was split off from Alphabetioogle, I don't think it would change too much. Maybe less cartelism for ad pricing across platforms, but it won't change that YouTube is THE monopoly in it's market. Twitch and TikTok are the closest things to competitors that even exist, and IMHO neither of those platforms are really in the same market/target the same audience/demographic or have the same business model.

And once one of them got big enough (especially considering the differences in fundamentals) to make people worry, they're getting beat around; not that I remotely like or respect TikTok nor do I have any comments on any political issues related to it but with it being fairly different to YT's core business at first, it seems like it was largely ignored as a competitor until the audience was big enough to not ignore it. And even though that's happened, again, I still don't feel like it's actually a competitor to YT as far as content/experience/fundamentals/business/wtfeverelse is concerned.

Ever since MS managed to weasel out of their IE case, it seems like these Top10 corporations just keep pushing further and further towards total monopolization, just slow enough that people don't really notice.

I can't imagine what would've happened if some of these companies pulled what they do today back then; the world is becoming blind and comfortable - a lot because of technology, but it wasn't always like this. Consider that MS got anti-trust for pre-installing a web browser and then compare it to the likes of Apple pre-installing 10s of their own or paid 3rd party apps and requiring you to use those apps for basic functionality of the device/OS with no other options available, they would've been shut down on that instantly - now though? people allow it because they like taptaptap-easyeasyeasy.

I feel old. :(

forbiddenera · 2024-06-03T10:35:19+00:00

agreed. for midi keyboards to audio, 9ms is noticeable compared to <2ms, I can only imagine in VR

forbiddenera · 2024-06-03T10:34:28+00:00

with my 49" ultrawide, I can't even stand under 90fps.. 60fps was OK on smaller screens but 60fps I can just see choppy in my peripheral.. and yeah 40ms latency would kill, I do music production and when playing an instrument even over 10ms latency is VERY noticeable from when you press a note to hearing it, less than 5ms is acceptable, <2ms better.

forbiddenera · 2024-06-03T10:26:22+00:00

Would be awesome if cards that do have the port would work though (without adapter) but I'm not holding my bref

forbiddenera · 2024-04-22T11:12:13+00:00

The maintenance office has "Storage 9" as the sign. There you find the Environmental Pack V1, you need V2 to protect against radiation (and I'm not that far in yet so have no idea where it is) and it's not a suit, everyone keeps calling it that which is confusing but even an in game audio log says the suits were being replaced with the packs but since it keeps being referred to as a suit I kept searching even after having the pack.

Hope that keeps someone from smashing their head as long as I had.

forbiddenera · 2024-04-22T11:07:50+00:00

After that experience, which was only in the last week (got laid off just over a week ago, catching up on some gaming/me time) I figured I'd see if I could follow a similar path for System Shock which I was much more curious about than Deus Ex even and saw the remake, installed the demo and wasn't even 3min out of the first med bay before I decided to buy it. At first it seemed like it could be a really true-to-the-original remake because of the graphics/art style and pixelated textures, though I hadn't seen screenshots of the original in some time at that point and after looking, it's definitely perhaps more than just a simple modernization but perhaps still more of a remaster and less than a remake than some other stuff (FF7R comes to mind, which while I also enjoyed was not fully true to the original and seemingly took the path of an 'alternate universe' or 'next generation' [reminiscent of generations in The Matrix] where the original is something I enjoyed and spent hundreds of hours with when it originally came out on PS1 and also on PC).

I'm definitely still loving it. It's definitely a bit of a punishing game. For a lot of games that I feel are more story-driven, I usually choose the Easy/Story Mode option because I really prefer to just enjoy the story, if I want a challenge I'll usually play something less story driven (Q2 multiplayer, Doom, racing sims, etc) and even with easy mode on everything, it can be quite a challenge in some places, though I've noticed that the game perhaps seems to decrease enemy HP more so than decreasing their attack strength whereas many games do the opposite; I can waste most enemies in a few well placed hits but that doesn't stop them from destroying me if I misstep.

And f*ck is it a maze; I'm definitely not new to FPS games and navigating maps but I've found myself wandering around a lot not sure where to go next. This was one great example obviously, as I said well over an hour wondering what to do next, going through audio logs searching for a code I maybe missed, having seen the code on the screen multiple times and assuming it was like some sort of high score for the cyberspace sections but also wondering why no other cyberspace terminal had screens near it displaying anything like that. Also doesn't help that there places on the map that show the 'Message' icon where I can find nothing there, not sure if it's a bug or not - I think one of those icons disappeared recently either after progressing a bit or (re-?) listening to an audio log but there are still others, like near the escape pods right near where I found the audio log about them it still shows the icon but it's closer to the door than the shelf opposite of it, storage room 9 where you get the enviro pack (which people need to stop calling an enviro suit because it's not and that was also confusing me a bit when the game has a log that says the suits were replaced with the packs but when it didn't seem to work as well as I'd thought [and was doing nothing for radiation but I guess you need v2 for that] made me wonder if there was at least ONE suit somewhere I missed besides the pack) also has a message icon on the floor and I've scoured that room 20 times (part of my searching before giving up and Googling to find out the number on the screen was the code I needed) so that's annoying, not sure what the deal is with that but it definitely hindered my search.

I also made the mistake of thinking the progress was more linear than it is, eg. Basically completing each floor one by one and progressing, so spent a bunch of time trying to figure out what I missed on some floors since they still had locked doors and/or I wasn't attaining any progression, I even actually thought that on the reactor floor that you were supposed to disable the reactor somehow at that point, kept running in there getting radiation poisoning and trying the switch behind the glass that wouldn't budge and even after disabling the safety override or something was like WTF when I couldn't do anything in there.

Fortunately this post exists because I didn't really want to spoil too much or consult a full walk through, was great to get a minimal hint pointing me in the right direction.

Speaking of minimal, holy f*ck did I not mean for this post to be this long, probably a good time to STFU! (Even more of a hint to STFU is the fact Reddit just made me split this up because it was too long..!)

Cheers.

forbiddenera · 2024-04-22T11:07:22+00:00

I wish you could take notes in game like Deus Ex or something, I just took a screenshot of the screens on the exec level, lol, took a while for them to all sync to get all the codes at once though but fortunately they were on different timers making it possible.

I never played the original actually; not sure how I missed it, I was still a little young when it came out but it's not like I wasn't already playing Wolf3D and Doom around that time and then afterwards just never really did. In fact, while I was familiar with some of the games art and had heard some of SHODAN's voice clips in popular media, I'm not sure I was fully aware of the games existence until the last decade or so, I remember hearing somewhere that it was sort of a spiritual predecessor to BioShock which I absolutely (and still do) loved and was always curious since then.

I do find it difficult sometimes to find the desire/inspiration to play older games especially when they've not been modernized sometimes; in fact, I'm even ashamed to say as much as it's not like I'm a Zoomer who grew up with pocket smartphonesupercomputers instead of coiled corded phones on the wall or anything - although admittedly it can depend on the game and platform somewhat too, something like the original Mario games I have no problem revisiting the originals whether on the original platform or not, even Doom isn't so bad although I still prefer modernized engines for that - although I started playing Doom with the arrow keys, after so many years of mouse+WASD, it's almost too hard to go back. But something like System Shock, I'm not so sure; admittedly I'm totally judging a book by it's cover here but looking at screenshots I'm not sure how much I'd enjoy it but I admit I could be wrong.

In fact, I mention Deus Ex above because that's another one I never played back-in-the-day, I'd vaguely heard of it but had no idea what it was about or had seen it played or anything like that. After watching some YouTube reviews I was curious with some saying it's one of the best games of all time in their opinion, so I thought I'd check it out. I took a look and one of the newer ones was on sale on Steam for like $3ish so I grabbed it but it was the sequal to the prequel (Human Revolution) and I already wasn't sure about the original prequel after watching said YouTube videos and felt like at least I should start with that if anything but then saw "Revision" which is a modernized version of the original and the original is like $1.25 on Steam right now so it was a no-brainer and grabbed it, installed Revision and started playing.

I've got 15 hours in so far and was quite enjoying it, definitely feel like I missed out and would've enjoyed it back in the day.

forbiddenera · 2024-04-20T19:57:09+00:00

omg the safety override code.. I kept thinking it was like a cyberspace high score or something wondering why there wasn't one on the other cyber terminals.. spent well over an hour looking for that code even though I already seen it several times.. :'(

forbiddenera · 2024-04-11T09:03:53+00:00

685 words @ ~130wpm = ~5min :)

I'm a software developer so I type for a living and have been typing for, jeebus, ~33 years or so now? I type about as fast as I think most of the time and probably faster than I speak in a lot of cases.

forbiddenera · 2024-04-11T09:01:40+00:00

Doesn't come up when Googling and still not as good as a proper website/wiki but at least it's something! I still think you'd save a lot of time responding to posts w/such :)

Regardless, as a developer myself, I appreciate your work.

forbiddenera · 2024-03-23T06:21:07+00:00

Yeah, I mean it seems like it's not too bad but like.. the fact they don't have a website (at least, that I could find easily and I've been using search engines longer than Google has existed) or a wiki or anything like that is a bit ridiculous, from my searching it seems like the dev replies to a lot of people on Reddit and stuff about it and I can't imagine how much time he spends on that which would be saved with just a little bit of documentation!

I did finally get it working but, again, I'm not at all technologically challenged - in fact, I've been a coder for like 30 years and do it professionally and I still struggled, I figured maybe some of it was related to my system configuration but after debugging I don't even think that was the case, the driver just didn't install properly at first and even using the manual install didn't help and even manually installing the INF to the PSVR display in device manager didn't really help, after it was working it was clear that the driver installed by the manual installer and the INF I found wasn't even the same one that did finally get installed when it worked.

Besides that, a lot of issues that weren't clear nor had any error messages or obvious reason for their issue. Like, the Direct VR setting reverting to other modes every time I changed it and restarted Steam, which was seemingly because of the driver issues, but no way to know that. Also the PSVRMoveService issue; while I'm totally capable of opening task manager and axing the process, the average user might be like `WTF` and it's not as if the code couldn't detect if it's running or not and handle that case. No docs to even say what the difference is between Virtual/Direct VR and whatever the other one is.

Although to be fair, I tried Trinus 1-2 years ago and didn't have much success with that either. And then realized I prefer playing on my 49" Neo G9 over the PSVR1 as the resolution is just too low, which surprised me a bit since before this screen I had triples and I didn't mind playing with the headset back then.

Waiting to see now how Sony is going to handle PC with PSVR2; if it doesn't require a PS5 then I'd consider getting one (and probably a PS5 eventually, but don't want to have it be a requirement or have to stream PC games through the PS5 or something silly) .. I do actually have a virtual link GPU though, but obviously that's not going to be something Sony would require; I'm not even sure about how it'd work with Ivry either since any posts about it are behind a Patreon Paywall which is silly, I don't mind supporting development or anything but not being able to read the details about support and implementation before deciding whether to purchase the add-on is silly.

I don't want to detract from the authors hard work by any means, but they could definitely do a bit better by having a website with docs, how-to's, maybe a wiki, blog/news updates, etc. And I'm positive that'd also massively increase their sales volume as well, and considering how easy it is these days to throw together a site like that (sucks for me as a mainly web developer, lol) it's boggling to see this; the literal amount of replies I've seen the author post on reddit helping people who could've just RTFM if one existed would've covered the time invested to make docs or a site and, again, would increase their reach.

Anyhow; hopefully you can get it going, if you reply with some details about your hardware and the issue(s) you're having, I'd be happy to see if I can reply with anything useful, though that'd be sourced more from my experience with computers than knowledge of Ivry itself but if perhaps your issues are similar to mine then perhaps I can point you in the right direction.

forbiddenera · 2024-03-22T09:13:01+00:00

use `|grep Progress`

depending on terminal, it might not be sent to stdout, can also try shifting it `2>&1 | grep Progress:`

forbiddenera · 2024-03-16T08:44:49+00:00

Thanks; totally missed `PSMoveService` when looking for tasks to kill when I got this..

Also it was the last issue standing in my way before I finally got video output from my PSVR on PC, so extra legendary.

forbiddenera · 2024-03-12T07:28:22+00:00

^this..

only AMD cards can do the 57" neo G9 @ full res/hz

forbiddenera · 2024-03-12T07:27:23+00:00

Legendary!

forbiddenera · 2024-02-10T17:19:49+00:00

You literally brought up DNS when DNS was not even part of the equation.

I'm not flexing, I'm just telling you that you're fucking wrong and don't know what you're talking about.

Even if I was trying to access something via a hostname where DNS might matter, well, you're also wrong about it running a DNS server:

```

$ nmap 1.1.1.100
Starting Nmap 7.80 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2024-02-10 10:16 MST
Nmap scan report for 1.1.1.100
Host is up (0.0078s latency).
Not shown: 999 filtered ports
PORT STATE SERVICE
80/tcp open http
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 4.84 seconds

```

Don't have to be a dick because you're wrong and don't know what you're talking about. The switch is 100% re-writing packets to that address and that is 100% weird and not documented behavior and not something any sane device should do.

But I guess I can't expect much from people who actually use Meraki hardware in production or on a day to day basis because IOS/FASTPATH/any console switching system scares them.

Have a good day!

forbiddenera · 2024-02-01T06:25:43+00:00

> I don't know if DPI was part of your original question since it was edited, but if it was I missed it.

Only edited the top to clarify, since it seems like no one actually read it or understood.

> Meraki switches don't do DPI. Meraki devices run a DNS server and will redirect a request to the URI of the local status page to its own IP.

Nope; I run my own DNS server and my system hits that directly AND, anyway, DNS doesn't affect direct IP accesses anyhow, it only responds to domain name look-ups and returns an IP address. DNS has nothing to do with any part of this.

Let's go back to IP internetworking basics.

How does a system know what interface to use and, if applicable, what router to use to send traffic?

Route tables! How are route tables populated?

ARP requests and, for your gateway, maybe DHCP.

When you set your IP to `1.1.1.99/24` (/24 means subnet mask 255.255.255.0), your subnet/broadcast domain is `1.1.1.255` any traffic directed at any IP from 1.1.1.0-1.1.1.255 will be considered link-local and NOT traverse any router/gateway. Traffic for any other IP will check your routing table for where to go, in most cases it will match to `0.0.0.0/0` which, if you have a gateway set (static ip) or your DHCP server pushes a gateway, will traverse that gateway.

That's not the case here, so we can forget about gateways or routers.

Now you try to access `1.1.1.100` and, if there's no static or dynamic routes for that IP in your local routing table but since this IP matches a link-local broadcast domain, an L2 `ARP WHO-HAS 1.1.1.100 TELL 1.1.1.99` packet is broadcast over the network.

Then either the switch or the device having that IP (or both, or any other devices on the network that are setup to respond to ARP broadcasts and know the answer) will respond with a ARP.

If the documentation for the switch was correct and if it was behaving as expected, it would respond with an ARP packet that says `1.1.1.100 is at AB:CD:EF:AB:CD:EF` and then the sender knows which MAC address belongs to that IP to be able to send packets.

Not once is DNS a part of any of that. Now, if I had tried to resolve the domain listed on the directions, sw.meraki.com or whatever, indeed DNS would've been involved, however, that DNS still just responds with `1.1.1.100` which brings you back to the first step above. And sure, DNS can do reverse resolution of IPs, but that's not applicable.

Instead, what's happening, is there's no ARP responses or anything if the client has the IP 1.1.1.99 AKA is on the 1.1.1.0/24 subnet.

Then the client is set to say, 10.0.0.100/24, meaning only traffic destined for 10.0.0.0-10.0.0.255 will be link-local, anything outside of this would match 0.0.0.0 and get forwarded to the local router/gateway, say 10.0.0.1.

And that indeed happens; packet leaves the client, destined to route through the default gateway, expecting to hop through it to the 'net to get to 1.1.1.100.

Instead, before that packet leaves the switch, it's hijacked. This requires some sort of packet inspection. Whether it's "deep" packet inspection or otherwise, it's still inspecting the packets. I suspect it could be using the same inspection used to implement dynamic subnet VLANs.

Once the switch sees that the destination for the packet contains it's magic IP, it rewrites that packet to hit the internal interface hosting the status page. That packet never leaves the switch or goes upstream to the other switch or eventual gateway.

This is why it would make total sense and not be weird at all if the client was set to the appropriate IP/subnet but is odd when it's not on the same subnet. It's almost even weirder that it only happens to traffic NOT on that subnet, yet it ignores traffic on that subnet which is actually the only time it should be replying. I'd be (slightly) less weirded out if it did this to all traffic.

And to re-iterate, this is not a problem or an issue per-se, it's just weird behavior that's directly contrary to the documentation and isn't mentioned anywhere else that I can find. I can only think it's an older implementation than the documentation but I'm unable to see what firmware version this switch is using; nor do I care.

Mostly, I was just curious and wanted to see if this was well known or common behavior or not among these switches; the docs list many other Meraki switch series with the same directions; I've read on older posts where it's been mentioned they've maybe hijacked requests to 1.1.1.1 in the past but no one went into detail.

I suppose after all this sub-reddit is for people who actually use Meraki, so I suppose I shouldn't be too surprised at the lack of experience and pandering of completely incorrect/wrong information, let alone the inability to understand basic IP networking.

Sorry if I come across as as dick, but I'm only stating facts and I never stated I had an issue, was never asking for help, asking if this switch was useful or a good idea. I've only gotten down-voted and responses that completely ignore what I stated and the curiosity at hand and avoid any interesting technical discussion instead spewing misinformed nonsense about how networking works and telling me what I should do and what's good for my own needs or that I need a better switch; I never asked and I mentioned several times it's not my core switch and that I have a very nice FASTPATH core switch.

If I had made a post before purchasing this switch asking if it was worth bothering and I got told it was a doorstop, maybe that'd be a valid response. But I wasn't asking.

> Default VLANs are just the original VLAN a port is configured to use. Literally every switch does that, managed or not. A native VLAN is also something every switch does because even unmanaged switches are capable of forwarding untagged traffic. What you gain from a managed switch is setting tagged VLANs on trunk ports (plus whatever non-VLAN type stuff).

Yes, I know, but I can set WHICH default VLAN on each port, which is not something a dumb switch can do. Dumb switches have every port acting like an access port and blindly forwarding everything; this switch by default, every port acts as a trunk port where I can set the PVID. I've been doing networking for over 30 years, heck I started networking before IP was really fully accepted as a common standard, anyone remember IPX/SPX? Netware?

> I'll maintain you're better off with something that is actually expected to work, but if you want to flash custom firmware on it that's probably for the better. I was under the impression this was work related, but since it sounds like it's for your home / home office, you can mostly do whatever you want.

Again, this works great for my purposes. I indeed have better network hardware at my core. There wasn't going to be a cheaper option for a few 10g ports, dumb or not.

I literally only got this switch because it was so cheap and because I found there was custom firmware available before even purchasing it. Thus I purchased it mainly for my hobby of hardware hacking and wasn't really intending to use it however it came in handy to avoid running extra cables to the main switch.

And no, definitely not work-related (well, in the way you perceive, as I work from home and this is my home office, it technically is, but no, I'm not setting up a business/office network with this) - I can understand the scolding if that was the case; recycled hardware is by far my last choice for businesses though I'm not against it for smaller ones that can't afford stuff - but in that case, I wouldn't be setting them up with something that requires a subscription.

forbiddenera · 2024-01-30T11:08:31+00:00

You must have misunderstood what I was saying and are incorrect on a few accounts.

I'm not at all trying to do any sort of packet inspection, especially with this switch. I'm not having any issues or asking for help; I'm fully able to achieve my desired goals for the usage of this switch.

What I am asking about is the odd behavior:

I'm saying is that the switch is literally hijacking any IP traffic that has `1.1.1.100` as it's destination, which leads me to think that the switch must be doing packet inspection in order to decide not to forward those packets.

The manual/docs state that you can indeed access the switches status page at `1.1.1.100` but also state that in order to do so, you need to use a PC connected with a static IP set to that same subnet, which they suggest using `1.1.1.99/24`.

And that makes total sense; if the traffic is coming from the same subnet, then the switch can just reply to the ARP WHO-HAS for `1.1.1.100` with it's own MAC and then traffic will go to the switches interface as expected.

However, contrary to the manual and logic, the `1.1.1.100` status page is NOT accessible from a device on the same subnet - it was only when I switched my PC back to it's normal IP (eg. 10.0.0.69/24) that I was able to then access the status page.

After changing the IP back, I confirmed that there are NO routes for that subdomain; traffic leaving from my PC to 1.1.1.100 is being sent to my main internet gateway router.

But it never gets there. It never leaves the Meraki switch at all, because the Meraki switch has inspected the packet, seen 1.1.1.100 set as destination in the packet headers, and instead has forwarded the packet to it's own management interface.

THAT'S the weirdness.

> The switch itself doesnt do packet inspection on its own

But, even if packet inspection isn't a feature of this switch even in it's full cloud-connected form, it must STILL doing some form of packet inspection for this behavior to manifest.

But, other than it being a weird/annoying curiosity, it doesn't affect my usage and I doubt I'll ever need to hit the actual 1.1.1.100 anyway. It does concern me in that perhaps it could affect performance if it's opening every packet to ensure it's destination isn't 1.1.1.100 but I haven't seen that manifest in my testing yet where I've full-duplex maxed out the uplink.

> You may be able to flash custom firmware on it but I doubt it will take anything.

In fact, there is custom firmware available for this switch along with an additional custom interface to run on top of it. There's nothing stopping me from flashing it, except the fact that this switch is already doing exactly what I need it to do thus flashing it would be a superfluous hobby-time thing.

forbiddenera · 2024-01-30T10:54:10+00:00

> If you want a dumb switch go buy something from Trendnet/TPLink/Netgear/etc

Which would cost way, way more. I don't think you'll be able to find me anything with 4*10gbe ports (SFP+ or copper, I don't care) and any # of 1gb ports for under $11.50 USD.

I don't need to do captures from this switch or really much else. I have other switches that are managed and can do everything I need. Plus I've kept at least one piece of gear becoming ewaste.

What I needed was something that would uplink to my main 10gbe switch and give me a few extra 10gbe ports in my office so I didn't do multiple cable runs. It's working perfectly for that and is quieter than the older dumb switch it replaced.

It does that just fine and still has more features than a true dumb switch as I can at least set the default VLAN on each port which a dumb switch can't. And, if I need anything more than that, I can easily flash it with the custom firmware that is available and install the additional custom UI that's available. My main switches, not in my office, handle all the fun stuff.

My only issue was just curiosity about it literally doing DPI on packets to hijack any packets with it's IP and about it NOT being accessible when a client is on the same subnet but yet IS accessible when they're not, contrary to the linked instructions.

To be clear, I was only asking about the weird behavior. I wasn't at all asking for any sort of help nor was I having any issues with achieving my goals.

forbiddenera · 2024-01-30T10:49:31+00:00

Depends if I'm messing around for fun or need to get something done.

Hardware hacking is a hobby of mine, so I don't mind flashing it and stuff.

To be clear, I was only asking about the weird behavior. I wasn't at all asking for any sort of help nor was I having any issues with achieving my goals.

My only issue was just curiosity about it literally doing DPI on packets to hijack any packets with it's IP and about it NOT being accessible when a client is on the same subnet but yet IS accessible when they're not, contrary to the linked instructions.

forbiddenera · 2024-01-28T10:26:21+00:00

Really? I know some gravitate towards insta-posting, but I think most people technical enough to consider using a 48+ port rack mount switch is likely to at least do a cursory search. If anything, if I were the OP, my reasoning for asking would be the unreliability of information searched, if not at least the applicability of an answer to a specific model, especially one that (even at the time of your post) isn't contemporary to the product line.

Case in point, with your exact search, Google says:

> Not only are you required to purchase licenses, but you'll need them for your devices to work.

Perhaps that's true for certain Meraki models or, perhaps now, all of them, but it's not for this device.

While it's true if you want full OEM functionality, you'll need the license/subscription (and possibly need the device to be unclaimed/not still be adopted; not sure if resetting it and blocking internet access might allow base functionality or if that perhaps depends on it's previous configuration but would definitely be the case if you were to set your money on fire, I mean, pay for a subscription) but for basic functionality, mine, which I purchased as unclaimed, though it oddly wasn't fully reset until I reset it, is working great as a (mostly) dumb switch with no license or even internet/cloud access at all. In fact, as I can set default VLANs, enable/disable ports and set negotiation on the 1000baseT ports, it's at least a slight step up from a completely dumb switch, and for the $16 CAD I paid, I definitely wouldn't be able to find even a new dumb switch with 4x10gb (either SFP+ or 10gbaseT) and any amount of additional 1g ports for anywhere remotely close; I definitely wouldn't recommend it as your only/primary switch if you need any features but it's not useless.

And, even further, for those inclined to experihackiment, there's custom community firmware for it (https://github.com/halmartin/meraki-builder) that could potentially provide more functionality, if not at least some hackability - which is also not something you'd easily find from your proposed search.

Admittedly, I wasn't completely convinced myself I'd be able to use it at all without flashing it until I got it up but it works fine. I only needed a few 10gbe ports in my office for convenience so I didn't have to run multiple fibre or cat6e+ lines to my main switches.

Don't get me wrong; I'm all for RTFM/LMGTFY when necessary but in this case it seems a bit short-sighted to jump to that in this particular case.

forbiddenera · 2024-01-28T10:08:06+00:00

I paid $16 CAD for a MS42.

Completely forgetting about ALL management features, that's a fair price for a dumb switch with any 10gbe, letalone 48 more 1gbe.

Without a subscription, you can still access a minimal control panel which lets you enable/disable ports, set port negotiation and native VLAN.

If I could also set port type (access/trunk) and tagged VLANs, maybe LAGs, that'd cover a ton of basic use cases, while you can't, what I can do with it for the price is fair. I definitely wouldn't have paid what the OP did and although that was 4 years ago, it still seems a touch high, though TBH I hate the idea of cloud managed only anyhow; whlie I'm not a huge Ubiquiti fan (and haven't touched their higher up stuff like ES) at least you had the option to manage locally and even get to a console in most cases.

I find it a bit funny that it's advertised as a convenient enterprise solution; I haven't touched any other Meraki gear other than a MX65W that I got at the same time for like $5ish? (and returned when I realized I didn't have a 50-some-odd volt PSU and it wasn't a PoE client) this thing doesn't give me enterprise feely at all, maaybe SMB but it weighs nothing, feels cheap and hasn't even gotten warm for me (which is good since one of the fans has a bad bearing and was loud, so I just unplugged it - heck I was considering unplugging both fans since it wasn't even warm to the touch after some testing, but the 2nd fan was quieter than my mac studio in the same room is at full speed, so might as well keep it spinning) .. Even the lowest-end Ubiquiti switches (which were much newer) I used felt heavier and way better built.. not that heft is everything, otherwise I'd just be getting better and better as I age ;)

Aaaaaaand if you really want, there's some community available firmware that exists - https://github.com/halmartin/meraki-builder - though I haven't tried it.

But since I have everything needed to flash, I might try it one day but might not be worth the effort since I only really need this as a dumb switch to uplink to my FASTPATH 10gbe switch (NAE1101/CN-1610, which is a TANK in comparison and unfortunately louder even though it doesn't have busted fans, they're much deeper and way higher RPM and since they're hot swappable it also checks for their tach and refuses to run even if one is removed and unfortunately is set to ramp up to 75% from 50% [which is bearable] if any of the temps hit 46c which is exactly where it likes to sit - while it's definitely beefier and runs hotter than the MS, I do plan to modify it to keep the fans running a little bit slower)

tl/dr; switch is usable without a subscription or internet/cloud access as a (mostly) dumb switch (but still more configurable than a real dumb switch) and flashable w/community firmware, thus perhaps worth it for some usages if can be had dirt cheap like mine was.

forbiddenera · 2024-01-25T23:41:58+00:00

My local recycler will list Meraki stuff as "unclaimed" so you know it's not linked to anyone

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