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BretD
Oct 24, 2019Administrator
BR500 VPN Currently Experiencing Intermittent Connectivity Issues - Reply Thread
Update Oct 30, 2019
Dear NETGEAR BR500 customers,
Over the past two weeks we have experienced extreme instability with our VPN cloud ecosystem. We believe it is due to the scale of custo...
warsawtech
Oct 27, 2019Tutor
This morning my VPN's are up
- tetrawestOct 27, 2019Apprentice
I'm going to let all of you test the BR500s for a week before I re-implement.
- warsawtechOct 28, 2019Tutor
Okay going on 48 hours and VPN still up on one of my clients.
NOTE: On these two BR500 I did not upgrade firmware to the 5.7.0.6. Both routers remain on 5.7.0.2. I wasn't going to drive 200 miles to upgrade the firmware onsite since when I did 4 others it wiped my config and I had to drive onsite to restore config. This mess brought one site down as the default on the router engaged DHCP knocking their server DC DHCP off.
- MrJoshWOct 28, 2019NETGEAR Employee Retired
Hello,
To the users who have upgraded to the 5.7.0.6 firmware and still reporting VPN issues can you verify for me the setup you are running into an issue with?
-Client to site?
-Site to site?
Can you please enable remote support on the unit and private message me the port number so that I can have engineering review the unit? This can be enabled by going to IPADDRESSOFDEVICE/support.htm
- NathenBOct 28, 2019ApprenticeMy issues are with client to site, I have the firmware released in this post installed. I am using the latest client ending in .21. The clients are getting dropped, typically just trying to disconnect and reconnect is working. (Before, I had to logout and exit the client, and then kill the VPN service, and then relaunch the client and connect) I have a ticket open on the issue, and have provided the requested info in that ticket thread. I also provided logs before and after the firmware update. Case ending in 8876.
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