https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/d-link-says-it-wont-p...
Dlink has a long history of putting out insecure and even backdoored devices and so anyone with a dlink device is probably better off buying something different
Except for unmanaged switches. These little D-Link unmanaged switches are little workhorses: I've got several so old I don't remember when I bought them. I take it D-Link didn't manage to fuck up even unmanaged switch?
But seen their approach to security, I probably won't buy D-Link again.
Every couple of weeks, the entire wired network goes down. Not even pinging adresses works. The d links ports leds are all flashing (perfectly in sync!) until I power cycle it. Then everything goes back to normal.
I have no idea what happens, and I should probably replace the d link soon.
STP is meant to prevent that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanning_Tree_Protocol
Of course you can't set up STP with unmanaged switches, so until you go managed and set up STP properly nothing will change.
Although I'm 100% sure there are no loops, I haven't changed the actual cable layout in ages.
I'd hope not. I haven't seen it yet at least.
Edit: checked their site: apparently they are still in the game, I guess just nobody buys them
Only thing I liked about them is that they had “emulators” on their website which would let you see a dummy version of the UI of any router, which was invaluable for someone doing informal remote IT since you could walk someone through configuring it by knowing exactly what the config pages looked like. Useful especially since remote screen sharing was tougher 15 years ago.
Right, my immediate reaction after reading the title was that D-Link might not patch their hardware, but others certainly will.
Dlink competitors should use this in their marketing.
Anecdotally, my elderly parents have asked me questions about ransomware and "our house getting hacked" because of segments they've seen on the mainstream nightly news. So the awareness is out there..