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Orbi Firmware Upgrades Not Keeping Up With OpenVPN Security Standards
Greetings! I am leveraging the VPN function on the Orbi which is using the OpenVPN. I have not been having a problem until around early last year when our connections using OpenVPN are now showing t...
Nobody is talking of -new- issues here ErwinL
So you tell us - officially and on behalf of Netgear - that existing stock can't no longer be maintained (software-wise), and existing users can request the replacement by an identical [much more Netgear] have a language problem here and is maneuvering into a big trap. Identical ???
Not a lawyer, but please explain what an identical model is in your understanding, and in Netgear's still non-existing product life cycle publication for SMB devices. Is the idea -really- that Netgear does take the risks involved continuing selling these devices to customers - especially in the view that Netgear does -not- have any newer products with the feature set anywhere near to the Orbi Pro and Orbi Pro Wi-Fi 6 (just to name two examples).
A reasonable product life cycle documentation is https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/eos-eol-policy.html
Netgear must change and adopt right away. Otherwise, the complete Netgear business market is killed, obsolete, and the loyal system integrators must stop promoting and selling Netgear right now - because Netgear became this minute an untrusted vendor, not better than any lowest cost garbage manufacturer we find on the grab table at Walmart, Carrefour (Europe, Asia), Otto's (Switzeland), MediaMarkt/Saturn, ...
YeZ JohnHenkel wake up before it's to late!