Note: Please check “Upgrade rules” and “Feature Limitations” section before upgrading.
Firmware Release: Version 3.8.3.0
New features and Enhancements
- Facebook Wi-Fi Social login support in Business Central
Issue Fixed
- Fixed issue showing Monitoring -> Dashboard page details properly in ensemble mode
- Fixed issue in displaying the hostname details under the wireless station details for Samsung S7 mobiles
- Fixed AP goes for reboot when disabling wireless scheduling in 2.4GHz when wireless scheduling is enabled for 5GHz and vice versa.
- Fixed standalone and ensemble dashboard showing negative values for wired and wireless traffic when exceeds more than 2GB.
- Fixed issue in blocking the wireless clients which are not configured in the RADIUS server when remote MAC authentication is configured.
- Fixed issue showing proper time based on time zone configured during DST period
- Fixed issue sometimes AP GUI page is shown instead of CP authentication page in the wireless stations.
- Fixed issue related to radio LED when 2.4GHz and 5GHz radio is disabled / enabled alternatively
- Fixed issue where wireless stations will not be session timed out when Facebook Wi-Fi registration is enabled after 5 minutes.
Known Issues
- When adding two different Facebook business page for two Captive portal profiles only the latest Facebook configuration will take effect for both the CP profiles.
- Duplicate Access point entries created in Facebook Business Wi-Fi settings page when the Access point get registered with Facebook second time after doing factory defaults and configure the same Facebook business page to the CP profile.
- Packet capture related configuration parameters are not clearly displayed in Mozilla Firefox browser with Ubuntu OS. Workaround: There parameters are displayed clearly in WIN OS on different browsers (IE11, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome)
- The dashboard screen becomes distorted when the screen resolution is 1280 X 800 or lower.
Operational Notes:
- Business Central 2.x (2.0/2.1) is supported in AP running with V3.5.6.0 or higher Firmware version. By default Business Central mode is enabled.
- AP supports three modes of operation, Standalone mode, ensemble mode and CLOUD mode (or Business Central Wireless Manager Mode).
- HTTPS traffic is allowed when Wireless clients connected to FB Wi-Fi enabled SSID without authentication but not allowed for general CP enabled SSID without authentication.
- Wireless client session timeout depends on time period configured in the Facebook business page for the Facebook Wi-Fi authenticated clients.
- DNS server should be configured with the AP name to access AP GUI using AP name.
- The default IP address of the AP is 192.168.0.100 when the AP cannot get dynamic IP address. DHCP client is enabled by default
- Enable/Disable Business central (Cloud Enabled) option resets the AP to factory default but retains IP, DNS and management VLAN settings
- In the following scenarios AP is expected to reboot automatically for the configuration to take effect:
- In the following scenarios AP is expected to reboot automatically for the configuration to take effect:
a.Firmware upgrade
b.Reset factory defaults
c.Business central enable/disable
d.Restore configuration
In all the other conditions AP is not supposed to reboot automatically
- Factory reset will be required to get managed by controller after upgrade to latest Firmware.
Upgrade Rules:
For Standalone and ensemble users
- If fresh out-of-factory AP, recommend to upgrade to latest FW available in the Web and do factory defaults to configure the AP and deploy in production network.
- If AP operating in standalone / ensemble mode with FW V3.6.12.0 or lower version, upgrade to latest FW.
Note: Please go through the “Feature limitations” section below before upgrading.
- Highly recommends in ensemble mode to upgrade Master and Salve APs simultaneously to the latest FW for all the configurations to be synced properly.
- The AP goes to factory defaults automatically when upgraded to FW V3.1.5.0 / V3.5.6.0 or higher version from the FW version below V3.1.5.0 only.
- Follow the steps below to restore the old configuration.
- Do “config backup” if AP’s FW is less than V3.1.5.0.
- Upgrade to latest FW.
- Do factory defaults.
- Restore the backup config file.
For Business Central users
- To connect to Business Central wireless manager, make sure AP has the FW V3.5.6.0 or higher version image where by default Business Central mode is enabled.
Feature Limitations:
- Firmware Upgrade:
- The below feature related configurations will go to defaults after upgrading from FW V3.6.12.0 or lower to this latest FW V3.7.10.0.
- Wireless scheduling: In the latest FW this configuration is available under per radio and security profiles per radio.
- Wireless client security separation: In the latest FW this configuration is available under security profiles per radio.
- MAC Authentication: Configurations done in FW V3.6.12.0 or lower version after upgrading to latest FW V3.7.10.0 will be available under SSID profiles page per radio.
- Backup / Restore feature:
- AP Mode.
- Restoring configuration file of firmware V3.6.12.0 or lower version on FW V3.7.10.0 will make the configuration done for the below features only to reset to defaults
- MAC Authentication
- Wireless scheduling
- Wireless client security separation
- Ensemble mode
- Backup / Restore configuration feature doesn’t work properly on ensemble enabled APs. Disable ensemble and restore the config file for configuration to apply properly.
- Rogue AP detection
- WAC720/730 – Rogue AP detection will not work when AP is operating in DFS channel.
- Ensemble Mode:
- There is no option to select which channels to be used (or not to be used) for Auto Channel Allocation feature in Ensemble mode.
- For 5GHz, Auto-channel logic will select only from non-DFS allowed channels for the current country code/revision list.
- For 2.4GHz, Auto-Channel logic will select either of these channels 1, 6, 11 only.