The idea of a small scale cluster computer I mentioned back in June of 2015 is still bouncing around and over Christmas I have taken some time to look into it a bit more. I have picked up a Netgear ProSafe switch, which has 5 ports and should be enough for what I need, but I have bumped heads against cross OS compatibility when it came to trying to configure it while out and about.
On Ubuntu I spent some time with WINE trying to get the configuration utility to install, but had no joy, so turned to the wonderful people of the open source community and discovered this repository on GitHub with an interesting read me file noting a reported vulnerability in the switches. Sadly the code for this utility does not appear to be working. I have found another as yet untried repository but as I have the opportunity to try the utility from Netgear on a Windows machine, so I will hold fire on that, although I will bookmark this for future reference. I might just make a point of updating the firmware while I am tinkering with this.
On Ubuntu I spent some time with WINE trying to get the configuration utility to install, but had no joy, so turned to the wonderful people of the open source community and discovered this repository on GitHub with an interesting read me file noting a reported vulnerability in the switches. Sadly the code for this utility does not appear to be working. I have found another as yet untried repository but as I have the opportunity to try the utility from Netgear on a Windows machine, so I will hold fire on that, although I will bookmark this for future reference. I might just make a point of updating the firmware while I am tinkering with this.
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