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advantagecom
Mar 25, 2009Novice
Firmware 7.3.1.7
Has anyone running a GSM or FSM series L3 managed switch tried firmware 7.3.1.7? I'm really curious about stability of this new release. 7.1.1.7 and 7.2.1.6 were not very stable (IP routing, VLAN, ...
alex74
Jul 14, 2010Aspirant
advantagecom wrote: We left our test switch with v8.0.1.2 exposed to the Internet for about 45 days. We never experienced any reloads or hangs. Given that we have about 6000 *new* malicious IP addresses attack or probe our network every day and there are thousands of attacks across our network every hour, I'd say that's a good result.
Our test switch is no longer connected to the Internet because we're using it in some internal server testing, but we're happy enough with the results that we will likely push this firmware out to production in the near future.
Hi,
Is it worth upgrading to 8.* version from 7.1.1.7 ? Is it much more stable than 7.1 ?
Thanks,
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