service_bb wrote:
Just wondered how people are finding this with the latest firmware in HA - Hot Standby mode?
I installed 3910's in HA at 3 different locations and it hasn't really been successful in any of them.
Location 1 has been fine on a 3.9.2.3 beta WITHOUT HA for 12 months without issue - I upgraded to 3.9.6.2 and re-enabled HA and again immediately started getting reports of intermittent connectivity and our site-to-site VPN was constantly dropping - as soon as I disabled HA everything returned to normal
Location 2 has been in HA on 3.9.2.4 for 12 months and I thought everything was well until I was told that they're encountering constant site-to-site VPN/packetloss that no-one had bothered to report! As a result I'll be updating them to 3.9.6.3 this evening and if the problem persists, disabling HA.
Location 3 had similar problems to the above - packet loss and unstable VPN connections, this location is too critical for me to mess around.
All of the above sites had been using Draytek 2862s (non-HA) or 2960 (with-HA) without any problems at all previously.
This has me incredibly frustrated given the price point for these units.
The 3910 is a great piece of hardware with terrible software - so many bugs and issues. Also, basic features on other models still haven't been released (auto config backup to USB). I have 2 x 3910 and havnt bothered setting up HA as I can imagine it not working well at all, I have a spare in the rack ready to go and every few months update the firmware and load on the latest config backup, that way if we have an outage I can just ask someone to swap over the cables.
