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Orbi firmware update 2.3.5.30 required me to unplug/replug all my GS108Tv3 switches
First: While posting this, I could only select between GS108T and GS108Tv1 and GS108Tv2. Sadly, the dropdown to select the model doesn't contain what I have, namely GS108Tv3. Someone should fix that....
So, since the last messages here, here is what I did:
- Updated all my GS108Tv3 to the latest firmware that just got released a few days back, 7.0.1.20, even though it doesn't list anything related to this in the Release Notes, as far as I can tell.
- Went into the Admin pages of each switch, navigated to SWITCHING > L2 LOOP PROTECTION, selected "g8" since that is the port I use on all my switches as the "incoming wire", set "Keep Alive" to DISABLE (which, according to the online help on the admin page, would turn off the feature just on this port), set "Rx Action" to LOG (which, according to the online help, would only log the event instead of disabling the port, in case a loop was detected, presumably only if the loop detection on this port got re-enabled somehow).
After this, regardless if I powercycled a satellite, or issued a REBOOT to the router, once everything settled down, everything was working. So, I am not sure what "fixed" it:
- Is it some undocumented/unrelated feature/fix in the new switch firmware (like, maybe, the fact that they removed the requirement of authentication with the Netgear account as opposed to the local password during every single switch reboot)?
- Is it me changing loop detection on the incoming port?
- Is it that somehow today none of my satellites are having the chance to establish a wireless backhaul before they can establish a wired backhaul, due to alignment of the stars?
- Is the order of things coming back onto the network today after a router reboot is somehow different than a few days ago?
- Did the last night's latest DHCP-assigned-IPs change when my satellites/switches are getting reactivated after a router reboot?
- ...
I'll report back here if the issue comes back.
Tuna
Sorry for my confusion, mixed two open threads.
Back to the switch where either the switch or Orbi does shutdown the Ethernet port. You talked about loop detection - a feature we know more of the Smart Managed Plus (GS108Ev[xxx]), while the Smart Managed Pro like the GS108Tv[xxx] are supporting the "real" spanning tree (STP) and the advanced RSTP and MSTP. No other way than get access to a switch [direct probably] and check the logs ans the port status for the port that went down.
So, since the last messages here, here is what I did:
- Updated all my GS108Tv3 to the latest firmware that just got released a few days back, 7.0.1.20, even though it doesn't list anything related to this in the Release Notes, as far as I can tell.
- Went into the Admin pages of each switch, navigated to SWITCHING > L2 LOOP PROTECTION, selected "g8" since that is the port I use on all my switches as the "incoming wire", set "Keep Alive" to DISABLE (which, according to the online help on the admin page, would turn off the feature just on this port), set "Rx Action" to LOG (which, according to the online help, would only log the event instead of disabling the port, in case a loop was detected, presumably only if the loop detection on this port got re-enabled somehow).
After this, regardless if I powercycled a satellite, or issued a REBOOT to the router, once everything settled down, everything was working. So, I am not sure what "fixed" it:
- Is it some undocumented/unrelated feature/fix in the new switch firmware (like, maybe, the fact that they removed the requirement of authentication with the Netgear account as opposed to the local password during every single switch reboot)?
- Is it me changing loop detection on the incoming port?
- Is it that somehow today none of my satellites are having the chance to establish a wireless backhaul before they can establish a wired backhaul, due to alignment of the stars?
- Is the order of things coming back onto the network today after a router reboot is somehow different than a few days ago?
- Did the last night's latest DHCP-assigned-IPs change when my satellites/switches are getting reactivated after a router reboot?
- ...
I'll report back here if the issue comes back.
Tuna
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