A memory leak is causing the EGS2108P to lock up when on the older firmware. The solution is to update the firmware of the EGS2108P switch to firmware ver 1.00.08.
The latest firmware for the EGS2108P is the version 1.00.09 and can be downloaded through the following link: https://www.engeniustech.com/wp_firmware/egs2108p-fw.flash