Netgear SmartSwitch GS752TP | GS728TP/v2 | GS728TPP/v2 | GS752TPv2 | GS752TPP

This documentation will work for all of the Netgear switches mentioned in the title.

GS728TP — 28-Port Gigabit Ethernet Smart Switch with 4 SFP Ports (16 PoE, 8 PoE+) (192W)

Documentation

Product Data Sheet

Hardware Installation Guide

Installation Guide

Software Administration Manual

Firmware and Software Downloads

NETGEAR Switch Discovery Tool for Linux Version 1.2.103 - File size: 69.7 MB Download

NETGEAR Switch Discovery Tool for Windows Version 1.2.103 - File size: 41 MB Download

NETGEAR Switch Discovery Tool for Mac Version 1.2.103 - File size: 65.4 MB Download

Smart Control Center v1.1.3.4 - File size: 19.7 MB Download

Enable SSH

  1. Enable Telnet
    In the manual, Netgear mentions that you can enable telnet “for diagnostic purposes.” To do this, go to Maintenance > Troubleshooting > Remote Diagnostics.
  2. Login
    Once you have telnet enabled, connect to it using your favorite telnet client. (Putty works great on Windows). The password is whatever you use to login to the web interface.
    Username: admin
    Password: (default: password)
  3. Enter Configuration Mode
    Once you are logged in, you will be at a command prompt with the name of your switch followed by # symbol.
    Type config to enter configuration mode.
  4. Enable SSH
    Type ip ssh server to enable ssh access. When you press enter, it will save the configuration immediately, and you will see something like
    27-Jan-2016 16:16:41 %COPY-N-LOGGINGFILECOPYSTOP: stop log messages related to file copy operations
    27-Jan-2016 16:16:43 %COPY-N-LOGGINGFILECOPY: start log messages related to file copy operations
    Wait for this to finish before issuing another command.
  5. Enable Password Auth
    Next, enable password authentication by typing ip ssh password-auth. Again, you will see messages while it saves the configuration.
  6. Change SSH Port (optional)
    You can optionally change the SSH port by typing ip ssh port <port number>.
  7. Change SSH Timeout
    You can view and change the SSH timeout (as well as other options) from the command line. Enter config mode and then type line ssh. The prompt will now show (config-line)#. Type do show line ssh to view the current configuration, and you’ll see that by default the SSH timeout is 10 minutes. You can increase it to 60 minutes with exec-timeout 60.

Convert OpenSSH Public Key to SSH2 Format

ssh-keygen -e -f id_rsa.pub > id_rsa_ssh2.pub

Import SSH Public Key of another host

  1. SSH to Netgear Switch
  2. Enter into Config mode config
  3. Enter into config-pubkey-chain mode: crypto key pubkey-chain ssh
  4. Configure new ssh client with username on switch side; type of pubkey import (rsa dsa): user-key admin rsa
  5. Now you should be in config-pubkey-key mode to import your Pub SSH key:  key-string
  6. Now your cursor should be in new line to paste in your SSH2 format key, once done then hit ENTER twice to save it in running-config
  7. You’ll be presented with Fingerprint: 23:2b:5d:5a:8e:80:b0:11:dd:92
  8. Then enter exit out of entire config mode: end
  9. To Save the config in startup-config: w then press Y