Bug Fixes:
- Fixes for vulnerabilities while accessing the admin page.
- Controller booting failures when external USB dongle is attached to the controller.
- Fixes few of the reported AP crashers from field.
- Remote AP improvements.
- Usage graph fixes.
- Fixes to AP370 Ethernet crashes.
- AP660 reboot when multicast video streaming is in progress.
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_FW_V5.0.0.32.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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