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rn104 updated to 6.4.0 and possible solution to random lock-ups
Hello everyone, I have updated my RN104 last week, and have been poised by the unit hanging up randomly since then. I have searched andread a lot of posts here, and after 5 hard reboot and re-syn...
6.4.1 is released. Who is taking the risk? :)
How are your NICs configured? Are they bonded? Try unbonding them if they are. It helped me s little but did not fix the issue. It seemed to have freeze less. I've gone back to 6.2.5 but have left the NICs as standalone and only one is plugged in. I don't have a proper switch to use bonding anyway so no biggie for me.
I have only ever been using 1 NIC. So that hasn't been the cause of my problem.
I have had less lock ups since, not running backups, and disabling SABNZB.
Only ever been using one NIC here too, simple unmanaged gigabit switch so no point.
Hello,
I encounter the same locks up on my RN104, but from what I saw it happens when writting a lot of data on the NAS.
Unfortunately I followed Netgear support advice and factory resetted.
When backing up from NAS to local HDD via FTP (2.6TB) : all went good.
When trying to put the data back on the NAS via FTP it locked up after 280GB of 200-1200Gb files.
I then factory resetted (to have a clean system without corruption due to "violent" power off) and put it back to support mode because they asked fot it.
No add on activated and fresh RMAed (Support thought it could be hardware malfunction) and fresh intalled from T29 Beta (which was the last to date when I recieved the RMA unit).
I double checked my disks via RN104 integrated test and WD utilities tests => all still perfectly fine even after all the violent power off.
So maybe add-on itself is not the issue but rather the fact that add-on write a lot of data on the system (even temporary data).
This looks a lot like a memory overflow.
Only 1 Gb Network interface used in a IPV4 environnement.
Hello,
thank you for the input.
What I actually do not understand is, that 6.4.0 is out for a month now and it is obviously extremely buggy but there is no official information from Netgear no recall or warning, simply nothing. The support guy treated me like an idiot who is not able to start the admin page. This one´s for sure Netgear: Never again!I´m a software developer myself, bugs can happen no doubt about it, but dealing with those problems is also part of the story.
Regards,
Peter
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