Nobody has tried yet, as far as I know.Can these unmanaged switches be flashed with, or unlocked, to provide managed capabilities?
They appear to be different legal entities but the hardware designs are indeed often the same (but not all brands have all models/configurations). Whether they are all manufacturing the same reference design or whether another company is designing, manufacturing and assembling all the hardware is yet unclear. Either situation would allow for the crossflashing of firmware. It wouldn't surprise me if they all work with the same ODM or ODMs though.Recently I bought ZX-SWTGW218AS switch in China. Paid ~47 USD (330 CNY), shipping ~12 USD. Switch name was LIANGUO. Found it on 1688. It came with HW version 1.1 and FW version 1.3. Flashed it to 1.7 using firmware attached by someone in this topic, worked without problem. It seems like Horaco, Hasivo, Lianguo etc. are just brands but board inside is the same. Today I replaced old unmanaged 1Gbps switch, so far so good. I did some iperf3 tests, getting 2.37 Gbps, looks promising.
Launched simultaneouslyOn the server side - you can also add the -D parameter for each server instance to run it as daemon rather than interactive.
iperf3 -B 192.168.3.10 -s
iperf3 -B 192.168.3.11 -s
On the client side
iperf3 -B 192.168.3.7 -c 192.168.3.10 <other options>
iperf3 -B 192.168.3.8 -c 192.168.3.11 <other options>
Everything is absolutely the sameLooks good, at least as far as raw network performance. You should also test with -R on the client as the above is sending from the client to the server.
Any change log about the recent versions }?New firmware 1.9
RF_V1.9_HR-SWTGW218AS_0104.zip
drive.google.com
Looks like it now supports LACP in the trunk setting. It used to be only static in the earlier firmware.Any change log about the recent versions }?
There is L2 managed one with POE(1 x 802.3bt + 3 x 802.3af/at) 4*2.5Gb + 2*10Gb SFP and POE(1 x 802.3bt + 7 x 802.3af/at) 8 x 2.5Gb, and also unmanaged one POE(1 x 802.3bt + 7 x 802.3af/at) 8 x 2.5Gb + 1 x 10Gb. They have also L3 managed POE version.Is there an accessible variant of these with POE? I have a need for one but also need to power two Unifi APs.
One model mentioned here via Taobao/Alibaba still doesn’t see widely available.