New Features:
- Supports Outdoor AP - WND930
- Captive portal improvements like URL redirect and lobby admins improvement.
- L2 multicast AP discovery which allows AP in same L2 network to be discovered without option 43.
- Band Steering Support
Bug Fixes:
- Serviceability and Reliability.
- Reset Reason Enhancements - Single place to look for understanding the AP reboot reason.
- Crash Dump infrastructure for all the AP models(except WNDAP380Rv2) supported, earlier this support was there for only WNAP320, WNDAP350, WNDAP360.
- More debug information regarding the application which got crashed.
- User readable timings in the LOG files.
- UI Enhancements.
- Fix for showing weird SSID in the client monitor page.
- Help file improvements.
- UI bug fixes in Monitor-Usage Graph.
- Support to change the floor/building id for multiple APs at a time.
- Upgrade enhancements
- Upgrade fixes to avoid RMA scenarios.
- Fixes in scheduled upgrade, related to time zone update issues..
- Radius Authentication issues resolved when managed APs having duplicate IP addresses.
- LED fixes when WN370 AP change group .
- Captive portal enhancement.
- URL redirect.
- Requirement for Lobby Admin Improvement :
- Allow adding/deleting multiple users for captive.
- Allow printing improvements with Welcome note and image.
- Band-steering fixes.
- Radio Driver Enhancements.
- WND930 Outdoor AP Support.
- Remote AP fixes, Time zone and DHCP issue, causing the tunnel flap fixed.
Known Issues:
- SNMP traps are not supported in WC7600 firmware.
- Wireless client separation feature do not work when clients are connected on different APs on same profile.
- Captive portal unauthenticated clients can able to send and receive multicast traffic.
- Captive portal authenticated clients require re-authentication when roaming from Primary Controller managed AP to Save Controller managed AP or vice versa.
- Wireless fixed data rate setting for WNDAP660/WNDAP620 not supported. This firmware will support only Best data rate.
Upgrade Instructions:
- Using the Download Link below, download and extract the new firmware to a convenient place such as your desktop.
Download Link: http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/WC7600/wc7600_V5.0.0.26.zip
- Log into the WC7600
- Take backup on the current running configuration from Maintenance > Backup/Restore and select BACKUP button.
- Read the below Caveats, if the upgrade is from a lower major release
- Select Maintenance > Upgrade from the main/submenu.
- In the Firmware Upgrade section, select Local File and click Browse.
- Locate the downloaded file and click Apply.This will start the software upgrade to your WC7600. This may take some time. Do not interrupt the upgrade process.At the conclusion of the upgrade, your WC7600 will reboot.
- In case of stacked and redundancy configurations, please follow the below steps:
- Upgrade the redundant controller first if available. Wait for the redundant controller to upgrade successfully and come back active.
- Then upgrade in the order Secondary 2, Secondary 1 and Primary controller.
Caveats:
When the upgrade is from 4.x.x.x to 5.x.x.x and Admin password has any special characters (example:"P !@#$%^" ),
then change the password to alphanumeric only before upgrade(example : "Password"). Take Configuration backup, Upgrade.
After the upgrade they can have their old password configured again in 5.x.x.x.
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