Dell PowerConnect 2716/24

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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In order to login to my Dell PowerConnect 2716 managed switch I get an error:

    User name or password is missing

If I disable avast, I have no problem login on to the switch. (If I enable avast again I get the same error when trying to login to the switch)

(an yes it cost me some time to figure out why I couldn’t log on to the switch from this computer ???)

J.F.G.

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If you just disable WebShield provider, will it work?

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Hmm, most likely, the switch will not support HTTP/1.0 or HTTP/1.1 but only (obsolete) HTTP/0.9… I remember WebShield having some minor problems with this outdated version of HTTP (which is used less than rarely today)…

I’d suggest placing the address of your switch to Web Shield exception list. If that doesn’t help, you’ll have to put the address to the no-redirect list in avast4.ini (IgnoreAddress= entry in the [WebScanner] section).

Cheers
Vlk

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That doesn’t work.

If that doesn't help, you'll have to put the address to the no-redirect list in avast4.ini (IgnoreAddress= entry in the [WebScanner] section).
That does work but the next problem is how to add multiple addresses. I've tried separating addresses with , or ; but neither work.

I have three of these switches and would like to be able to manage all of them without Avast messing it up …

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Now I’ve found it in the GUI and there we have instructions for multiple addresses. On the first tab of webscanner configuration I can add the addresses separated by commas as “Ignored addresses” (or whatever it may be called in English). I don’t know why I didn’t get it to work when manually editing avast4.ini and used commas but that doesn’t matter any more.

Now it works in IE but the problem remains in Google Chrome. Any ideas how to flush the Avast-induced problem out of Chrome?