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RBR-850 v4.6.3.9 - Change in behavior.
RBR-850 / AX6000 Noticed an issue a few weeks ago attempting to SSH to a device that is located over a VPN tunnel. This had been working previously and it wasn't a big deal because the site had a...
Router and HDD are different.
http.fw.updates1.netgear.com
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Thanks - I'll get those blackholed.
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While I don't want to turn this into a phiosophical debate about the customer experience, and I do get that they are different pieces of hardware. The router is purpose built and specifically designed to do basically one thing with no additional software installs allowed by customers, endpoints being far more complex only serves to further my point. When a purpose built device takes a software upgrade there are far less complexities engineers need to account for in the process. If something as simple as reading the configuration from nvram and refactoring for any additional features that may have been added/removed/etc can't be done on a closed / fixed system after over 20+ years of experience maybe it's time to examine the way it is being done and overhaul it, 'cause it ain't workin' baby.
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To the task at hand,
I backed up my settings, reset to factory defaults, restored the settings and the same issue still exists.
Something to make contact with NG support and let me know what your seeing on v4.
Ya i know. Something else I noticed the other day with mine. Factory reset and ran into all kinds of problems getting the RBS to conenect right and RBR would NOT go into AP modem. Low and behold I left the units unplugged and came back yesterday evening after work and the RBS connected correct and I was able to get into AP mode. Something caused the RBR and RBS to being some bad state, even after a reset, the power OFF for 24 hours then back ON, for unknown reasons fixed it. Orbi has been crazy for sure so even in this case, FR seemed to cause more problems then expected...at least on v4. Still, it's a valid troubleshooting item that we employ, I have seen it solve many many issues before time and time again. Now I need to employ a full power OFF as well. Lordy Lordy. Your not the only one with a LONG history in the computer field Sir. The first computer I touched was a dot matrix continuous paper fed computer with only a keyboard and conencted to sysop via analog dial up handheld phone modem.
Get in contact with NG support what your seeing. I may take time for them to fix what ever that was broke so if you need your system to work before v4 was applied, you need to downgrade back to v3.
Appreciate the observation.
Unfortunately Netgear support won't talk to me as my unit is over 90 days old and I refuse to pay for additional support on one of their most expensive systems (white glove should be included with the price tag) to troubleshoot a firmware upgrade I have no control over.
The release notes say I can't downgrade from this version of the firmware, at least on the RBR - I hear the RBS can, but I'm not really having issues with them. I haven't tried to downgrade though because I can't really afford to brick a $1K mesh system and then wait for any kind of replacement.
<Sigh> I knew I should have gotten the Ubiquiti Dream Machine.