DWS-3000 Series Firmware Release Notes
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1. 07 DWS 3024 A1G A2G Runtime V2 0 0 6 30 Sept 07 DWS 3026 A1G A2G Runtime V1 0 1 5 27 Oct 06 DWS 3024 A1G A2G Runtime V1 0 2 3 14 May 07 DWS 3026 A1G Runtime V1 0 0 5 16 Aug 06 DWS 3024 A1G Runtime V1 0 1 5 27 Oct 06 DWS 3026 AiG DWS 3024 A1G Runtime V1 0 0 5 16 Aug 06 DWS 3024 A1G New Features Firmware New Features Version V3 0 0 16 No new features added Bug fix only V3 0 0 14 1 802 11e U APSD support Only the DWL 8600AP supports 802 11e U APSD 2 Voice VLAN support Enables the switch ports to carry voice traffic with defined priority so as to enable separation of voice and data traffic coming onto the port It safeguards the audio quality of an IP phone from Emus MU T DAD AQU V3 0 0 12 D Link DWS 3000 Series Firmware Release Notes deteriorating when the data traffic on the port is high 3 RIPv2 support Supports dynamic routing in the form of Routing Information Protocol version 2 4 Switch Date Time Setting The administrator can set the current date time on the switch that has a real time clock support through the Web UI now 5 SNTP Enhancements The SNTP client on the switch now has the ability to display the time zone and support daylight saving time 6 Display Available NVRAM Flash Size The show nvram size CLI command has been added to display the NVRAM size information 7 Default SSL Certificate support for access the switch via HTTPS A default SSL certificate is presen2. JP sometimes the AP incorrectly becomes unmanaged V 1 0 10 fixed this problem 1 A switch with firmware v2 0 0 6 may have problem cooperating with an AP with firmware v1 0 2 6 or below Be sure the switch and the AP are both upgraded to v2 0 0 6 Only DWL 8500AP supports v2 0 0 6 DWL 3500AP does not support v2 0 0 6 at this moment In an environment with EE 0 M Lamm D Link DWS 3000 Series Firmware Release Notes DWL 3500AP it is suggested to use v1 0 2 3 firmware for the switch V1 0 2 3 V1 0 1 5 None V1 0 0 5 Related Documentation DWS 3000 Series User Manual DWS 3000 Series CLI Manual DWL 3500AP amp DWL 8500AP amp DWL 8600AP Unified AP Guide
3. Web UI ACL Summary Web UI Display enhancements New pages for IP ACL and MAC ACL are added to display Rule Summary 4 Supports Dynamic VLAN Assignment for a wired station The client can get assigned to the appropriate VLAN that is configured in the RADIUS server 5 Supports Guest VLAN for wired stations 6 Supports Station Isolation for Managed AP 7 Supports Antenna Diversity configurability 8 WebUI Modified Power Display the Web UI displays the power fraction in decibels along with the percentage 9 Enhanced client association trap amp syslog following pieces of information V2 1 0 9 are added SSID Authentication method none static wep wep 8021x WAP personal WPA enterprise 10 Enhanced Ethernet interface parameters counters The following new interface status parameters counters are supported through CLI Web UI and SNMP Media Type ARP Type Total output drops Ignored frames Late collisions Deferred transmissions Lost carrier No carrier 11 Changed the CLI command WPA passphrase to WPA key 12 Disabled W56 channels for Japan 13 Listed all the possible Channel values in the description of MIB object OID 1 3 6 1 4 1 171 10 73 30 1 11 1 6 0 wsAPRadio1Channel 1 Changed the refresh timer for 3 Web Pages All Access Points Authentication Failed Access Points RF Scan Rogue Access points from 15 seconds to 30 seconds mue m T D Link DWS 3000 Series Firmware Release Notes 25 3
4. addresses of the configured range are assigned DEUR20101209000005 2 The b g device is showed up as a b device DI20100302000011 When user connects to the switch by Telnet connection and enter the show running config all command the switch might repeatedly display the following message ewsStringCopyIn no net buffers available DI20110201000002 1 Show the error message Failed to set CST Configuration Status on Spanning Tree CST Configuration Status page even the configuration is correct DI20100302000011 2 Editing and changing the graph image repeatedly through the Edit gt Edit Graph menu on WLAN Visualization Tool might cause the switch reboot automatically DI20100407000001 3 The PoE power budget does not reach 370W DUSA20100528000001 After enabling the Captive Portal feature the management access to the switch or access to the network through the Captive Portal authentication might become unresponsive after a period of several hours or days The switch must be rebooted to regain management control DCA20100210000001 DUSA20100507000002 DI20100209000006 DI201 00308000004 DRU20100512000001 5 After configuring 2 AP profiles one for DWL 8600AP and another for DWL 3500AP the 802 11b g setting on DWL 3500AP profile will become disabled after rebooting the switch DI20100921000001 1 When a forced Disassociate message was sent from a Switch to its managed AP to disassociate a client client RADI
5. value Therefore after 0 INT is V2 2 0 4 decremented further to show up as 65 535 and so on failing the dynamic VLAN MAX check 5 Previously CLI did not prevent associating with more than one Captive Portal configuration 6 CLI also did not allow assigning a group to a Captive Portal configuration with RADIUS verification mode 7 After switch rebooted the Captive Portal interface remained in disabled state causing all wired amp wireless clients to not re authenticate correctly when using static IP 8 After upgrade from 2 1 to 2 2 for a switch with static IP the associated wireless interface comes up disabled 1 If DWL 8500AP is operating with its 802 11a radio turned on in a country that requires radar detection for 802 11a channel selection eg GB JP sometimes the AP incorrectly becomes unmanaged V2 1 0 10 2 Correct the SNMP MIB description of OID 1 3 6 1 4 1 171 10 73 30 1 11 1 7 0 wsAPRadio2Channel OID 1 3 6 1 4 1 171 10 73 30 1 11 1 6 0 wsAPRadioiChannel 3 Help information of Captive Portal trap is not available 1 After upgrading to 2 0 0 x from 1 0 2 3 from IE browser web pages show small compact tables rather than right frame wide tables This does not happen if the switch is upgraded through the CLI 2 The APs become Connection Failed Access Points occasionally 3 Wireless clients cannot access AP after the AP starts up for several days 4 A large ping packet to the L3 tunnel will be dropped V2 1 0 9 5 Ad
6. 4 5 6 Supports Path MTU Discovery RFC 1191 Supports Unified AP Web GUI New design of login page Web GUI Logout link is added on the top blue bar Web GUI Allow configuring timeout parameters for HTTP HTTPS login sessions 7 Web GUI WLAN gt Administration gt AP Management gt Software Download page Allow selecting multiple AP for software downloading The admin can select either one Managed AP or all the Managed Aps in previous release An Abort counter is provided in this page which shows if all the Aps aborted upgrading or none An activity bar is displayed once the AP NVRAM upgrade is in progress so that the user is aware there is some activity going on 8 Web GUI WLAN gt Monitoring gt Access Point gt All Access Points page All the columns on this page except the last 3 Radio Channel and Authenticated Clients will be sortable V2 0 0 6 9 WLAN gt Monitoring gt Access Point gt Authentication Failed Access Points page WLAN gt Monitoring gt Access Point gt All Access Points page and WLAN gt Monitoring gt Access Point gt Rogue RF Scan Access Points page After the admin selects one or multiple Aps and clicks Manage a new configuration page is shown for configuring the Aps 10 WLAN gt Monitoring gt Access Point gt Managed Access Points page and WLAN gt Monitoring gt Access Point gt All Access Points page A Switch Port column will be added to indicate which physical port on th
7. D Link DWS 3000 Series Firmware Release Notes Firmware Version 3 0 0 16 Published Oct 26 2011 Content Revision History and System Requirement ssssssssssssessssee sese enemies menn enne 2 NEW Feature Si c T 2 Problems FIxed arire riirn ei ananena ECD y EEEE VA AEAN DENNEN ECE APAE AERIKERARREREANARETKRA 8 KNOWN ISSUCS 11 Related DOCUMENEATION iex atn e deae ex Pl xD RU e eR RR xen ROT RR Ra CR RO E 12 D Link DWS 3000 Series Firmware Release Notes Revision History and System Requirement Firmware Version Date DWS 3026 A1G A2G A3G Runtime V3 0 0 16 26 Oct 11 DWS 3024 A1G A2G A3G DWS 3024L A1G A2G DWS 3026 A1G A2G A3G Runtime V3 0 0 14 28 Apr 11 DWS 3024 A1G A2G A3G DWS 3024L A1G A2G DWS 3026 A1G A2G A3G Runtime V3 0 0 12 14 Jan 11 DWS 3024 A1G A2G A3G DWS 3024L A1G A2G DWS 3026 A1G A2G Runtime V2 2 0 22 20 Dec 09 DWS 3024 A1G A2G DWS 3024L A1G DWS 3026 A1G A2G Runtime V2 2 0 17 20 July 09 DWS 3024 A1G A2G DWS 3024L A1G DWS 3026 A1G A2G Runtime V2 2 0 15 06 July 09 DWS 3024 A1G A2G DWS 3024L A1G DWS 3026 A1G A2G Runtime V2 2 0 12 20 Feb 09 DWS 3024 A1G A2G DWS 3024L A1G DWS 3026 A1G A2G Runtime V2 2 0 4 30 Oct 08 DWS 3024 A1G A2G DWS 3024L A1G DWS 3026 A1G A2G Runtime V2 1 0 10 30 April 08 DWS 3024 A1G A2G Runtime V2 0 0 6 30 Sept 07 DWS 3024L A1G Runtime V2 1 0 9 19 Feb 08 DWS 3026 A1G A2G Runtime V1 0 2 3 14 May
8. US information is still cached in AP so the client does not need to re authenticate DCA20090629000001 2 AP would store RADIUS response time for up to an hour making clients unable to re authenticate if they fail MAC authentication using RADIUS during that period DI20091022000008 V3 0 0 14 gt V3 0 0 12 V2 2 0 22 1 In show running config summertime mode was not checked and was displaying V2 2 0 17 in config even thought it had default values 2 Captive Portal idle timeout didn t work correctly Sometimes RF Scan does not scan other channels V2 2 0 15 2 The Signal Strength of Rogue AP is not correctly displayed on the web DEUR20090407000003 1 Very rarely WLAN Utilization goes over 100 HQ2009020200002 Mi VLAN Routing did not function correctly din NN ee o DWS 3000 Series Firmware Release Notes 1 Lost ARP Request frame from wired line in DWL 8500AP When a dynamic VLAN is deleted the WPA group state machine is left in an unknown state when the VLAN is recreated the state machine is never restarted This caused some ARP Request frames from a wireless client to be dropped 2 Corrected the default values for wsNetworkTunnelStatus and wsTunnelMtu objects 3 When NV image is not completely loaded user is not prompted with a failure message This happened to NV images with size bigger than 1MB 4 EAP Auth Fail for DWL 8500AP DWS 3026 There was no check for the dynamic VLAN counter at the MIN
9. ccess Point Summary page has been added to display a summary of the APs in local database and divide into different types This summary is also displayed by using the show wireless ap database CLI command 20 Local AP Database Full GUI message a popup error message is displayed when the local AP database is full The popup message is The local AP database is full failed to add a new AP 21 Rogue AP Mitigation supported on DWL 8600AP only Helps automatically protect the network against rogue APs by sending de authentication messages to clients by faking the rogue AP MAC address as the source MAC and BSSID of the de authentication frame and using the broadcast MAC address as the destination of the de authentication packet 22 Client based Rate Limiting supported on DWL 8600AP only This is new for Client QoS design With external RADIUS administrator can limit the Max transmission rate on each wireless client The rate limiting function is good on limiting UDP transmission rate like video streaming application but not well on limiting TCP transmission rate 23 Support secondary RADIUS server for wireless client authentication 24 RADIUS server Failover support a secondary or backup RADIUS server can be defined for wireless client authentication If the primary RADIUS server is not available the secondary RADIUS server will act as a failover server for wireless client authentication 25 RADIUS server Fail through suppo
10. e switch the AP is connected to directly or indirectly in the same L3 domain 11 WLAN gt Monitoring gt Access Point gt Rogue RF Scan Access Points page and WLAN gt Monitoring gt Access Point gt All Access Points page A new button named UnAcknowledge is added It allows the user to 6nacknowledged an already Acknowledged rogue AP without going to the Valid AP page and deleting from there 12 WLAN gt Administration gt Basic Setup gt Valid AP gt Valid Access Point Configuration page Allow resetting the AP immediately after changing the parameter of a valid AP without going to the AP Reset page 1 The WLAN Visualization window lists the Managed APs by their IP addresses and not by their MAC addresses 2 Web GUI Synchronize the color code on all the pages that show Aps Managed APs Green Failed or Rogue APs Red Acknowledged Rogue APs Gray Peer Managed APs Amber 3 Web GUI In WLAN visualization window modify the dimension name V1 0 2 3 Height to Length for Selection dropdown box in the Scale Factor section of Edit Graph Definition and New Graph Definition Dialog Box The field name Length below the dropdown box is changed to Size to avoid confusion 4 Web GUI Modify the failed AP icon in visualization window 5 Web GUI When saving configuration is complete the Too s gt Save Changes page will display a message to confirm it clink Cee EET D Link DWS 3000 Series Firmware Releas
11. e Notes 6 Web GUI Modify the word Reset to Reboot for all the occurrences on the Tool gt Reboot System page including the text on the page button text help page the page title when it prompts for the save and the buttons on that page 7 Web GUI Refine the warning message wording on AP software download page 8 Web GUI D Link logo image is made linkable with the URL www dlink com tw to redirect to each website of OBU 9 Web GUI Correct the D Link logo on some help pages 10 Web GUI All Access Points page now shows the channel and the 802 11 mode for rogue APs 1 Web GUI Correct WLAN Visualization gt Download Image page s help page 2 Added new model DWS 3026 V1 0 1 5 Modified the status message on the AP Software Download page to clarify the downloading and upgrading process V1 0 0 5 First Release D Link DWS 3000 Series Firmware Release Notes Problems Fixed Firmwar Problems Fixed e Version 1 When using CLI to configure a subnet based VLAN you cannot configure the VLAN with a network address The CLI accepts only a host IP address HQ20110324000003 V 3 0 0 16 2 The DWS 3026 will not get an IP address if the DHCP server is not directly connected because the DHCP client on the switch sends DHCP broadcast request packet with a TTL 1 As a result the requests are not getting to the next hop HQ20110712000012 1 The DHCP Server for the wireless Clients stopped working when all IP
12. min cannot input a WPA key longer than 32 characters 6 Admin cannot connect to the Web UI after a few days of run 7 After SSH idle timeout the switch hangs up 8 Switch stops responding to SSL from APs after a few days of run and then cannot manage APs 9 The help screen of copy command on CLI has an extra character 10 Serial Number on the CLI and Web GUI is not displayed correctly 1 POE related configuration on the switch does not get preserved across resets Sometimes when a new client associates with the AP the switch displays a roam trap message V2 0 0 6 3 The IP 0 0 0 0 can be added in Radius Accounting Server setting page and cannot be deleted 4 The LED of port 2 amp 3 flash amber when the active links go beyond 14 ports 5 Web GUI does not incorporate with Java Runtime v1 6 ae el D Link DWS 3000 Series Firmware Release Notes V1 0 2 3 V1 0 1 5 V1 0 0 5 1 Fixed the issue that the results from some OID values APMacAddress OID 1 3 6 1 4 1 171 10 73 30 1 11 1 1 ManagedAPMacAddress OID 1 3 6 1 4 1 171 10 73 30 8 1 1 1 were incorrect 1 In Sentry mode the AP scans all channels independent of the switch profile configuration 2 The Web page for VAP does not always update properly 3 When changing to a particular Country Code the available channels for the A band is not listed correctly in the drop down menu on the web page 4 The Power Save mode does not work correctly 5 The VAP stat
13. odified the channels to 36 40 44 48 149 153 157 161 165 CR modified the channels to 36 40 44 48 149 153 157 161 165 RO modified the channels to 36 40 44 48 MY modified the channels to 36 40 44 48 PK modified the channels to 36 40 44 48 3 Increased memory usage for WLAN visualization function to allow up to 16 jpgs in the applet instead of 13 before 4 Previously the AP page on Switch GUI will automatically refresh every 30 seconds A new check box has been added at the bottom of the page next to the refresh button to disable the auto refresh HQ20090213000016 1 Added a warning message NOTE Please do not reset the APs when NVRAM update is in progress on the switch GUI 2 Supports wired Captive Portal extends the Captive Portal from v2 1 0 9 for WLAN clients to the clients connected to the physical ports on the Wireless Switch 3 Captive Portal Client web UI Customizations adds new customizable language specific web pages for a Captive Portal instance V2 2 0 4 4 User Group RADIUS attribute support for a Captive Portal user in the RADIUS database User Groups can be associated to a Captive Portal instance via RADIUS 5 Increased Captive Portal Username Password for local database and RADIUS to 32 characters 1 Provides a note on the Client Stats page that it is not supported for Wired CP V2 1 0 10 1 Supports new model DWS 3024L which manages up to 24 Aps 2 Supports Captive Portal 3
14. pports 802 11n 13 AP Profile Enhancements The radio web page in the profile configuration is enhanced with several new options for 802 11n 14 AP Hardware and AP Profile Compatibility The software checks whether APs discovered by the switch are compatible with the profile assigned to them 15 Enlarge Default SSID values from 8 to 16 The default values of the 16 SSIDs for each radio on any configuration profile are dlink1 dlink16 Note that for a managed DWL x500AP only the first 8 SSIDs are sent to the AP as those AP radios support 8 VAPs For the DWL 8600AP radios all 16 SSIDs are sent 16 WLAN Visualization Inactivity Timer If there is a period of inactivity on the WLAN Visualization applet long enough to let the session expire a message box pops up to alert the user and to request to re authenticate the web session via web browser 17 NetBIOS Name Snooping If a Windows client is associated with a managed DWL 8600AP or DWL x500APs the AP snoops the client NetBIOS name and sends it to the switch and then switch displays the NetBIOS Name of the client on the CLI Web and SNMP Rie DEEEEEEEENEEN D Link DWS 3000 Series Firmware Release Notes 18 Client Name in Local MAC Authentication List A user friendly name of up to 32 printable ASCII characters can be assigned to a client entry in the local Client MAC Authentication list 19 Local AP Database Summary enhancement On the switch Web UI the Valid A
15. rt In WPA WPA2 Enterprise security if the authentication is failed at primary RADIUS server switch can pass wireless client information to secondary or backup RADIUS server for authentication 26 DWL 8600AP DFS channels support for Japan W53 W56 are supported for JP in case of standalone DWL 8600 APs W53 W56 are supported for JP in case of DWL 8600 APs managed by DWS 4026 switches Partial DFS channels W53 are supported for JP in case of DWL x500 APs operating in standalone mode and DWL x500 APs and DWL 8600 APs managed by DWS 3000 series switch 1 Allows the range to be set on the RF scan interval from 30 120 to 30 3600 seconds 2 Added Brazil country code BR ee 1 Increased maximum client lease number on DHCP server from 256 to 1 024 V2 2 0 17 1 Added detailed upgrade warning message on AP CLI GUI and Switch GUI 2 Shortened the Captive Portal loading time 3 Can show summary of the local AP database in CLI and Web GUI V2 2 0 15 4 Add a warning message when AP database is full 1 Added new Country Code for Russia Russian regulation requires that all channels from 5 35GHz to 5 65GHz be disabled 2 Updated 802 11a regulatory information as well as power output for the V2 2 0 12 following countries TW modified the channels to 52 56 60 64 149 153 157 161 165 SG modified the channels to 36 40 44 48 52 56 60 64 149 153 157 pe NN D Link DWS 3000 Series Firmware Release Notes 161 165 EC m
16. t on the switch file system so that the administrator can enable HTTPS and access the switch using HTTPS 8 Null User Authentication The null user authentication is allowed the administrator login the switch Web UI and serial console by using blank username and blank password 9 Captive Portal Enhancement Custom Background The administrator can optionally specify the background image to be used for the client authentication screen on the user s browser window Client Authentication Logout Request The administrator can optionally configure and enable user logout This feature allows the authenticated client to deauthenticate from the network Captive Portal Default Session Timeout The default value of the range of Session Timeout is changed from 0 to 86400 seconds 10 Support DWL 8600AP management The supported AP hardware types are DWL 3500AP DWL 8500AP and DWL 8600AP now 11 AP Code Download Enhancements previous design uses the same code image on both DWL 3500 8500AP The DWL 8600AP cannot use the same code image as the DWL x500APs Therefore the code download application and user interface are enhanced to enable the administrator to specify a different download file for the DWL 3500 8500 8600AP The administrator can specify two image files two image paths and select which image type to download 12 Channel Assignment Enhancements The channel selection is enhanced to support 802 11n mode Only the DWL 8600AP su
17. the values defined in the Client QoS Bandwidth Limit settings on TCP packets The observed values are much higher than the defined ones 1 A switch with firmware v2 1 0 x may have problem detecting APs with firmware v1 0 x x When upgrading from v1 0 x x to v2 1 0 x be sure you upgrade APs first then upgrade the switch A v1 0 x x switch can detect v2 1 0 x APs 2 Using TKIP RC4 encryption with WPA2 results in roughly 30 lower throughput than using AES encryption due to a hardware limitation 3 Turbo SuperG mode does not increase traffic rate significantly Filename with a space character is not supported for Visualization image 5 When the country code is changed on the wireless switch it is recommended that the user reset the switch after saving the configuration Failure to reset the switch may result in inconsistent operation 6 Tunneling is not expected to work with port based routing interfaces All tunneled routing interfaces must be VLAN routing interfaces APs should not be attached to the switch via port based routing interfaces as well 7 More than 1024 characters cannot be added to the AUP Acceptance User Policy for CP Web Customization 8 Ifa captive portal instance is associated with a disabled VAP re enabling the VAP does not automatically enable the captive portal instance 1 If DWL 8500AP is operating with its 802 11a radio turned on in a country that requires radar detection for 802 11a channel selection eg GB
18. us is setting more than one VAP when using SNMP None D Link DWS 3000 Series Firmware Release Notes Known Issues Firmware Version V3 0 0 16 V3 0 0 14 V3 0 0 12 V2 2 0 22 V2 2 0 17 V2 2 0 15 V2 2 0 12 V2 2 0 4 V2 1 0 10 V2 1 0 9 V2 0 0 6 When updating code from previous code version 2 x to 3 0 0 15 some or all wireless radio configuration setting will be lost A workaround for this issue exists using the CLI on the console port Prior to upgrading execute a show running config command and capture the output in a text editor Perform the upgrade from 2 2 x to the latest firmware Activate the image and reboot the switch Using the CLI again paste the output into the CLI and the configuration will be restored When the SSID on a VAP of a managed AP is hidden non broadcasting the VAP is reported as Rogue APs in switch 1 WLAN Visualization feature only supports IE6 or IE7 now It might not work correctly with Internet Explorer 8 2 When WPA WPA2 Enterprise security is enabled first time roams between x500 APs and 8600 APs may require a new session to be established from the RADIUS server The PMK exchanges between the x500 and 8600 APs failed due to the different size and structure of the PMK data on the x500 and 8600 APs So the first time a client roams between the x500 and 8600 APs is not fast roaming but subsequent roams support fast roaming 3 The download and upload speeds do not fit
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