I don't want anything more to do with Dell PowerConnect 2700 series switches. These things are crap!

Today I had a fight with a PowerConnect 2724, and I lost when it committed suicide. The client has four of these switches, but they had never used the management features. The first two seemed fine as I logged in and created some VLAN's. The third one was a pain. It was in managed mode but would not answer on the previously assigned IP or the default management IP. As luck would have it this switch is mounted way the hell up in the air, so a platform lift was required to get to it to cycle it out of managed mode and back, after which I could finally log into it.

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