ZyXEL WAC6502D-S Access Point Firmware 5.00(AASE.3)C0

Following new features are introduced in this release:

- New AP WAC5302D-S support

- New AP NWA1123-ACv2 support

- Dashboard enhancement for Top N AP by 2.4G or 5G traffic usage

- Monitor Wireless enhancement for SSID Info with 2.4G/5G Station No.

- MAC Authentication fallback to Web Authentication

- Support 802.11r Fast Roaming on NWA5120 series & WAC6000 series

- Dynamic VLAN Assignment by Group

- Managed AP auto save last configuration

- Authentication Primary/Secondary Server fallback

- NXC Internal Captive Portal with FQDN support

- Support computer authentication on Microsoft AD server

- Support Japanese language on controller

- Standalone AP supports Rate Limit

- SNMP MIB Enhancement

- Log enhancement for DFS channel log

Resolved Issues:

1. [eITS: 160400957 ]

[Symptom] Badlock vulnerability on NXC controller, though in normal enterprise switched network environment, it is difficult for an attacker to perform MITM in-between NXC controller and the AD server.

2. [eITS: 160500535 ]

[Symptom] AP and NXC connect through CAPWAP, but can not automatically join default group. The AP group field of the AP is empty

3. [eITS: 160500753 ]

[Symptom] WAC6503DS AP auto reboot randomly.

4. [eITS: 160501889 ]

[Symptom] ”realm” and ”NetBIOS” support underscore(_)

5. [eITS: 160700570 ]

[Symptom] When user use 802.1x auth, the system log didn’t use prime symbol (‘ ’) to include user name.

6. [eITS: 160601343 ]

[Symptom] WAC6502D-S is frequently down.

7. [eITS: 160700869 ]

[Symptom] DHCP reservation from DHCP table in Dashboard does not work after upgrading to firmware 4.30. 8. [eITS: 160700992 ] [Symptom] The uplink rate limit setting is invalid when the SSID in tunnel mode with VLAN tag.

9. [eITS: 160800194 ]

[Symptom] When AP is changed the IP, but the tunnel rule is still used the original IP address, it cannot be re-created, caused by the connection is lost and the client cannot get the IP address.

10. [eITS: 160800370 ]

[Symptom] The uplink of Rate Limit in tunnel mode doesn’t work when the management VLAN and SSID VLAN are different.

11. [eITS: 160800371 ]

[Symptom] A laptop sent some unknown packet cause by the Zylog daemon service is dead. 12. [eITS: 160700399 ] [Symptom] Captive portal and Redirect on AP doesn’t work on repeater AP with ZyMESH .

13. [eITS: 160800401 ]

[Symptom] Wireless bridge will be disabled after rebooting.

14. [eITS: 160700868 ]

[Symptom] Add a new feature for NXC drop ICMP unreachable packets in the output chain.

15. [eITS: 160800931 ]

[Symptom] Static route cannot enter IP-0.0.0.0 in the Destination IP on the GUI, but can add via CLI.

16. [eITS: 160800931 ]

[Symptom] LDAP user login fails when upgrading to firmware v4.30

17. [eITS: 160900068 ]

[Symptom] NXC ZySH daemon dead Condition:Socket leak is caused by using debug remoteWTP command

18. [eITS: 160900555 ]

[Symptom] If connecting the devices to the NXC5500, after NXC reboot, the port speed status will be 100M. However, if unplug and re-plug again, the port speed will return to 1000M. 19. [eITS: 160900206 ] [Symptom] When we do 802.1x for authentication, the account is not able to pass the authentication.

20. [eITS: 161100309 ]

[Symptom] NXC controller QRUser fails to pass authentication if its password length is more than 60 characters.

21. [eITS: 160801219 ]

[Symptom] [MIS field trial] uamd daemon is dead caused by NXC trigger hardware watchdog to reboot the NXC

The following is the firmware upgrade procedure:

1. If user did not backup the configuration file before firmware upgrade, please follow the procedures below:

- Use Browser to login into device as administrator.

- Click Maintenance > Configuration File > Backup to save the current configuration file (config.cfg) of your system to your computer.

- Find firmware in a file that (usually) uses the system model name with the .bin extension”

- Click Maintenance > Firmware Upgrade to open the Firmware Package screen. Browser to the location of firmware package and then click Upload. The device automatically reboots after a successful upload.

- After several minutes, the system is successfully upgraded to newest version.

About Access Point Firmware:

If you update the Access Point (AP) firmware, your device can benefit from changes that fix multiple issues encountered by wireless clients, correct different user interface problems, add various functionalities, and include support for newly developed protocols.

Before performing this task, we recommend that you read and understand all the installation steps, because there are many AP models and manufacturers available. Each producer strives to make the procedure as simple as possible, but there are cases when it’s anything but that.

It is also advisable that you apply a new access point firmware in a steady power environment (UPS unit will satisfy this need), using an Ethernet cable rather than a wireless connection. The latter can be easily interrupted.

With this in mind, if you wish to apply this version, click the download button and install the package on your access point. Remember to check back with our website as often as possible so that you don’t miss a single new release.