Wasn't it in beta?  Someone said there were two RC.

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On Oct 28, 2014 3:06 AM, "Colin Zwiebel" <[email protected]> wrote:

> It occurs to me an alternative model would be to redo Ubnt beta testing.
> Buggy firmware is making it out of beta and I believe more issues could be
> caught in Beta if Ubnt could help WISPs test. Have staff that work
> specifically with partner wisps. Run advanced diagnostics on our network,
> help us migrate devices to new firmware (in the middle of the night during
> off hours), diagnose problem devices, run performance metrics. We all have
> networks, we just don't have resources to test your firmware for you.
>
> I feel there are a lot of issues that Ubnt would catch en-vivo this ways.
> For example, the ToughSwitch-pro fiasco, or the Edgemax hardware
> acceleration reboots.
>
> Whatever field testing you are doing its not enough. Help us out, and you
> can more fields than you can imagine.
>
> Colin
> On Oct 27, 2014 9:02 PM, "Colin Zwiebel" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> <rant>
>> Ubnt now has a market cap of 3.04 Billion USD. You have the resources, it
>> seems test engineers should be finding these problems, not me.
>>
>> Same applies to ToughSwitch-Pro microburst performance problems and
>> EdgeMax Lite IP offload (that crashes all Edgemax that touch vlans, even if
>> VLAN acceleration is disabled).
>> </rant>
>>
>>
>> Colin
>>   netBlazr <http://netblazr.com/> - free your broadband!
>>
>>
>> The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary
>> telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it
>> meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 8:57 PM, Colin Zwiebel <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> We are having serious problems with v5.5.10 with 5GHz XM hardware and
>>> have decided this firmware is not production ready. We using *v5.5.10
>>> only for links that require UNII-1* frequencies and avoiding in all
>>> other situations. There is some sort of a bug with scanning for available
>>> networks, so if your area has few networks, you might observe different
>>> behavior.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://community.ubnt.com/t5/Installation-Troubleshooting/v5-5-10-major-bug-no-SSIDs-in-scan-print-scanning-info-buffer/m-p/1072997#U1072997
>>>
>>> *AirOS v5.5.10 is not production ready!*
>>>
>>> Ubiquiti, it appears you have a major bug and need to revoke the
>>> release, remove from website, until you get this fixed.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> We have now had 3 clients -- 2 Nanobridges and 1 Rocket M5 -- disconnect
>>> from their AP with the same behavior: NO SSIDs appear in scan list.
>>> Downgrade to v5.5.8, no changes to config, radio once against sees SSID and
>>> connects perfectly.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *Workaround: Frequency Scan List*
>>>
>>> I cannot fully confirm this, but it appears, v5.5.10 plus frequency
>>> scan list has this problem less. It also might be that this pares down
>>> the amount of data coming from the atheros driver (by not scanning all
>>> frequencies), and scan list doesn't actually fix the issue, just reduces
>>> the scan data to something that doesn't break the radio.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *iwlist ath0 scan -- print_scanning_info: buffer too large(65535) for
>>> realocating*
>>>
>>> In our most recent incident, I was able to SSH into the failed v5.5.10
>>> STA
>>>
>>> XM.v5.5.10# iwlist ath0 scan
>>> print_scanning_info: buffer too large(65535) for realocating
>>>
>>> XM.v5.5.10# wlanconfig ath0 list scan
>>> ioctl[unknown???]: Argument list too long
>>> wlanconfig: unable to get scan results
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> We are running now with a frequency scan list (cannot downgrade this
>>> radio) and both iwlist and wlanconfig commands are working properly.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> More details:
>>>
>>> APs: Problem happens with both Nanostation M5 APs and PowerBridge-M5 APs
>>>
>>>   - Seen with AP on v5.5.10
>>>
>>>   - Seen with AP on v5.5.8
>>>
>>> STAs: Problem observed with NB-22-M5 and Rocket-M5
>>>
>>> DFS: Problem observed on both DFS and non-DFS frequencies (5805)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Most recent incident, Rocket was working fine for a few days, suddenly
>>> died. It rebooted in the process (only 2min uptime when I got to it). Let
>>> sit 10min, rebooted, made no difference, gave buffer too larger error no
>>> matter how many reboots. Only enabling scan list patched it.
>>>
>>>
>>> Colin
>>>   netBlazr <http://netblazr.com/> - free your broadband!
>>>
>>>
>>> The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary
>>> telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it
>>> meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.
>>>
>>
>>
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