[m463]

I bought one and ran their firmware but it phoned home. kept on sending packets to some weird ip address at boot.

So I installed openwrt. They're actually pretty well supported by openwrt (except for the newer 10g switches)

[k_roy]

> kept on sending packets to some weird ip address at boot.

You mean an RFC1918 for etherboot? I have a "few" of these devices and this simply doesn't make any sense in any context.

[m463]

No it was not any kind of private ip (10.x/172.x/192.x/169.x etc). I swear it was eastern europe, probably mikrotik

I've since wiped the firmware/license keys so no idea.