Undocumented reboot feature?

SwOS
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I have lots of RB250’s in the field at < version 1.6
Upgrading is a pain as some of them need to be power cycled as I can’t get the reboot button to do much of anything.

Taking matters into my own hands, today, I tried:

Upgrade the switch to 1.6 using the web interface and then:
Open http://<ip_of_switch>/reboot in a browser (I was using Chrome)

And it actually does something - not sure how or what - but the switch comes back with the new version.

I have tried this with v1.2 and v1.4 devices with good success.

2

Neat. That is good to know.

3

That’s because button is not working (I don’t know why) and /reboot calls a reset command directly (that should be done by button). It is not “doing something” - it is writing some non-sense in browser, because /reboot is not legitimate webpage, but it seems to be some server-side AJAX related script and it returns some result codes.
So - don’t worry to use this work-around! :wink: Let’s hope reset button will be fixed in some future version.

4

http://<ip_of_switch>/reboot is an action of reboot button submit.