FAQ

Access points

Q1) Where can I find the firmware for the access point?

Click here for the firmware of the access point.

Note: when you get an error “failed to set hardware filter to promiscuous mode”, then it is adviced to use an older version of npcap (click here to download v1.60)

Q2) What do the LEDs on Plasma Cloud Access Points mean

Click here for more information.

Q3) Where can i find the release notes of the accesspoints?

Click here for more information.

Q4) What is the reason that not all the accesspoints have a blue “status” symbol when the AP is connected to internet

You might notice that all the accesspoints are online (last check-in time is 5 minutes or less) , but at the same time it does not show a blue “status” symbol for each device in the plasma-cloud portal.

The reason is that the plasma-cloud devices establish a permanent cloud connection to connection.device.plasma-cloud.com – TCP port 80 (as reported in our firewall article). This connection is normally idling and some firewalls kill idling connection after a certain amount of time.
Killing this connection is what leads to turning the flame grey in the console and also may trigger email notifications.
On firewall/modems manufactured by some brands (like Draytek) we have seen that the default NAT session timeout for WWW connections is 60 seconds. Increasing this value to 1day normally solves the issue.

For Draytek click here.

portmaptime -l
portmaptime -w 86400

Switches

Q1) Where can I find the firmware for the switches?

Click here for the firmware of the switches.

Q2) How can i update the firmware of a switch manually?

Click here for the firmware of the switches.

Q3) Where can i find the release notes of the switches?

Click here for more information.