Firmware update for WLC Wi-Fi controllers. Version 1.42.0

Firmware version: 1.42.0

The firmware and detailed description of the product capabilities are available in the Downloads or on the product page.

• Convenience:
  • “Dashboard” page for quick overview of the Wi-Fi network and controller states
  • Main menu restructuring and adding pages for object groups and access lists configuration
  • Support for running vWLC in Proxmox virtualization environment
• Reliability:
  • Connecting AP without re-registration when changing the WLC address
  • Optimized process of establishing secure connection when connecting AP
• Monitoring and diagnostics:
  • Implemented ability of radio environment analysis (spectrum analyzer) in the WEB interface and CLI
  • Viewing the results of passive AP scanning in the WEB interface
  • Expanded filtering of client logs and AP, added detailed logging of roaming events and the reasons for the AP transition to the LOST status
• Security:
  • Configuration of access control lists for SSID clients (ipv4-acl)
  • Change of the admin username on AP
  • Create WLC username with capital letters and special characters
    Monitoring and management:

• WEB:
  • General changes:
    • Menu restructuring
  • Configuration:
    • Configure groups of objects in the tab
    • Configure access lists in the tab
    • Select MAC address among the connected AP when creating individual AP settings
    • Disable AP radio interface on the "Radio Profiles" page
    • Disable AP radio interface in individual settings
  • Monitoring:
    • Added “Dashboard” page
    • Display of the number of clients by ranges
    • View the results of passive scanning in AP monitoring
    • Launch spectrum analyzer and view the results in monitoring
    • Optimized operation of the logs, the total number of records has been calculated in a separate stream
    • Filter by multiple AP statuses on monitoring pages
    • Display the traffic volume on AP interface in MB
• WLC:
  • General changes:
    • Switch of the registered AP without loss of registration when changing the address of the WLC
    • Optimized process of establishing secure connection when connecting AP
    • Implemented the specification of the "Invalid data from AP" error
  • Monitoring:
    • Extended logging of client roaming events
    • Advanced filtering of the customer log by fields: ip, roaming, ssid, username
    • Advanced filtering of AP log by fields: ap-location, ip, state
    • update and show wlc ap spectrum-analyser commands to start and view the spectrum analyzer
    • Extended logging of the reasons for AP transition to the LOST status
    • Extended client connection error events during 802.1x authentication
  • Configuration:
    • Configure country-code unlimited for WOP-30LS
    • beacon-hostname-translation command in ssid-profile to enable AP hostname broadcast in beacon frames for WEP-30L, WEP-30L-Z, WOP-30L, WOP-30LI, WOP-30LS, WEP-3ax
    • Changed lower limit of wlc-connections keepalive in ap-profile for 30 seconds
    • Added description command in object-group ap-models
    • Reduced the maximum number of object-groups ap-models groups to 64
    • Configure WIDS for WEP-500/550K
    • Passive scanning for WEP-500/550K
    • 802.11r cross-band-roaming command to enable the roaming of the 802.11r standard between the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz/6 GHz bands
    • admin-username command in ap-profile to change the admin username
    • sensitivity-threshold command in individual AP settings to adjust the receiver sensitivity
    • Enhanced validation in the 6 GHz ssid-profile for security mode: the ability to configure unsupported operating modes has been removed
    • Display of traffic volume on AP interface in MB
    • Disabling/enabling the AP radio interface in the radio-profile and individual AP settings
    • Disabled validation between "tx-power" and "tx-power min/max" parameters
    • ipv4-acl command in ssid-profile to configure an access control list containing IP addresses available or prohibited to the client after connecting to the SSID
    • Redefine AirTune parameters: tpc, dca, 802.11v in individual settings
    • Configure AirTune parameters: tpc, dca, 802.11v in ap-profile
  • Syslog:
    • logging wlc-roaming command to enable logging of roaming events in syslog
  • SNMP:
    • OID "ELTEX-WLC-MIB::eltWlcClientInfoByMacApHostname" to find out the name of AP to which the client is connected
    • "ELTEX-WLC-MIB::eltWlcApSaByMacTable" table containing data on unregistered AP indexed by MAC address
    • "ELTEX-WLC-MIB::eltWlcApRadioByMacTable" table containing AP radio parameters indexed by MAC address and radio interface number
• Security:
  • AAA:
    • Creating a login with capital letters and special characters
  • ACL:
    • Assigning a service-acl to subinterface/GRE tunnel
    • show and clear ip access-list counters commands to view and clear access-list counters
• Tunneling:
  • Softgre-controller:
    • Traffic balancing using the internal headers of SoftGRE tunnels when terminating traffic on sub-interfaces for WLC-3200
• vWLC:
  • Run in Proxmox virtualization environment with support for the QEMU Guest Agent
• Redundancy:
  • Cluster:
    • Configure the source-address in the radius-server local in the upstream-server block for each unit

• Removed "GOT UNWAITED EVENT" message when switching to a backup device
• Problem of collecting statistics on SNMP with an operating time of more than 500 days
• Fixed exec-timeout for WEB sessions on vWLC
• Substitution of the source-port for RTP traffic