Closed sissieadmin closed 2 years ago
I completed the upgrade for my other netgear router. This one was an AC4000 or R8000P.
This one required a timeout to be defined in the command to upgrade. I was able to upgrade from 1.4.1.50 to the latest 1.4.2.84 firmware using the following command (notice the -t and -T which I took from here):
sudo ./nmrpflash -i ens7 -f R8000P-V1.4.2.84_1.3.42.chk -t 10000 -T 10000 Advertising NMRP server on ens7 ... | Received configuration request from 10:0c:6b:1a:85:e2. Sending configuration: 10.164.183.252/24. Received upload request without filename. Uploading R8000P-V1.4.2.84_1.3.42.chk ... Warning: TFTP block rollover. Upload might fail! OK (53477454 b) Waiting for remote to respond. Remote finished. Closing connection. Reboot your device now.
Do you remember how much time it took to flash the R8000P? You specified a timeout of 10000 seconds (2h, 46 min, 40 s), whereas the default is 15 minutes (I'd like to increase that in the next release - would 30 minutes be enough?).
Thanks, updated the readme. BTW -t 10000
is now the default in the newest release. -T
is still at 15 minutes.
I wanted to say thank you to the developers, and post my experience with this tool. I use Linux.
I had a Netgear AC3600 that wouldnt update. I actually have two Nighthawks that wouldnt update to newer firmware versions. I managed to fix one that I just bough cheap and second hand, the other has yet to be fixed and I will be trying soon. I found lots of threads of Netgears of this model or similar not upgrading.
The first was on a 1.4.1.50, and wouldnt upgrade to any revision normally. With nmrpflash it failed to upgrade to .84, the current latest, but it upgraded successfully to .68. One on .68 I was able to upgrade normally to .84.
I will try the second router that I have had for longer. I will likely forget to update this post, but I am anticipating similar results since the issue was almost exactly the same.