ZyXEL XGS1250-12 status?

Hardware Questions and Recommendations
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Hi all,

One on my "switches" is acting up a bit (it has a hard time booting, i guess one of the condensators is end of life, its an old e4200v2 im just using as switch). So im looking for a replacement, i was thinking of upgrading it to >1Gbit to get me started a bit with upgrading my infrastructure (thinking about getting a SSD NAS which only kind of makes sense with high >1Gbit connections etc.). So I was looking at the ZyXEL XGS1250-12.

Two questions:

  1. What is the support currently on 23.05.4? I dont really need the SPF+ port for now, would be great if that also worked though. (I saw that the 6.6 support is still "work in progress").
  2. I read on the device page https://openwrt.org/toh/zyxel/xgs1250-12 that you need serial to get it installed. I never have done that on any of my other devices, so can somebody point me to a suitable USB-to-serial device which would work? Also can I then just use putty or something to serial or how does that work?

Thank you,

Ramon

P.S. If anybody has a suggestion for another switch that would be great as well. It needs to have at least three >1gbit ports.

2

Support for rtl838x is quite well, support for rtl93xx (as in your desired target) is quite basic and in its current state more for rather advanced users (who are not afraid to do some development); rtl839x is somewhere in the middle.

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what does this mean? its not really working? Known bugs?