Hello, when logging into the router via telnet and accessing the fw / lan-wan settings, I cannot use the show function nor can I disable or enable any rules. I need this to work for an automated task that should change these parameters. It tells me that I provided too few parameters, however the show functions in the other routing virtual folders seem to work just fine without any additional arguments. Am I missing something, or is there a way to contact Netgear so that they can finally fix this and some other issues in the firmware.Or do I really have to build and flash OpenWrt and do my own, less buggy firmware? Sincerely,Benedikt

I just set up a factory defaulted FVS318Gv1 here and tried. You are not able to do "show" in the /fw/rules/lanWan/outbound if there exists at least one outbound firewall rule. This seems to be a bit of a glitch indeed, however this device is very old so it's End of Life and out of support... No further firmwares will be released for it I am afraid. I'd probably look in to an upgrade, the FVS318Gv1 is very old by now, the LAN-WAN throughput is according to the datasheet only 25Mbps which doesn't really hold up to today's standard and is not very 'future proof'. A good replacement would be the FVS336Gv3, which also has 2 WANs allowing redundant Internet connections. It's probably a bit costier than the FVS318G was back in the days, another option would be the FVS318Gv2, although it's a bit old now and maybe not so future proof - but it will definitely outperform the one you have and it does have the newer version of CLI which is similar to the FVS336Gv(2,3) series and SRX5308. Edit: Here is a link to a datasheet that compares the models FVS318Gv2, FVS318N, FVS336Gv3 and SRX5308.

Never tried OpenWRT on the business routers, only some old home router so I wouldn't be much help there I'm afraid. Source can be found here:http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2649/~/netgear---open-source-code-for-programmers-(gpl) And for the FVS318G, FW 3.1.1-18:http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GPL/FVS318_V3.1.1-18_src.zip cheers!

Thank you for your suggestion. So finally I decided in favor of the PC-Engines APU.1D4 router which can route 400-500 Mbit/s, has 4 GB DDR3 RAM, a dual core AMD processor at 1 GHz and a 16 GB server-grade SSD. It also has 3 gigabit Ethernet interfaces that are connected through PCI-Express.It will be running pfSense.

Hi Muessigb, I advise you to open an online case with NETGEAR Support at anytime. Let them know about your concern for further assistance. Regards, DaneA NETGEAR Community Team

But support is not free. It is quite sad seeing a company ask money for something they messed up in the first place.

FVS318G Telnet LAN<>WAN firewall settings not working

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DaneA
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Jun 23, 2016
Hi Muessigb,

I advise you to open an online case with NETGEAR Support at anytime. Let them know about your concern for further assistance.

Regards,

DaneA
NETGEAR Community Team
Muessigb
Tutor
Jun 23, 2016
But support is not free. It is quite sad seeing a company ask money for something they messed up in the first place.
- DaneA
  NETGEAR Employee Retired
  Jun 27, 2016
  Hi Muessigb,
  
  I understand how you feel about needing to pay for technical support whenever the support warranty has expired. Kindly post an image or screenshot of the error message or the telnet session to your FVS318G so that others here in the community may post suggestions regarding your concern.
  
  What is the current firmware of your FVS318G?
  
  Regards,
  
  DaneA
  
  NETGEAR Community Team
  - Muessigb
    Tutor
    Jun 27, 2016
    Hello.
    Thank you for your reply.
    Here's an image of my Telnet session to the router. First, I went into fw/rules/lanWan/outbound and ran the 'show' command to display all the configured rules.
    Then I went into the inbound rules and executed 'show' again. Unlike the first time, it works here and in all the other screens without any problems.
    I am also not able to enable or disable any LAN<>WAN rules from within the Telnet console. The web UI has no problems doing so.
    
    I am running the latest official firmware 3.1.1-18 from Netgear which is unfortunately from around 2014.
    
    Regards,
    Benedikt
Danthem
NETGEAR Employee
Jun 30, 2016
Personally I'm a big fan of he FVS336gv3.. It's around 200 I'd guess, especially if you can find some discount. I can see Amazon reviews are not too amazing but they are very few and as someone who deals with a whole bunch of them I think they're great.

Banana-pi is definitely an interesting piece, I've been eyeing one for myself at home but I would probably not implement a b-pi based solution in a business Network.. It all comes down to what the requirements are though, in some scenarios it would be fine I guess :)
- Muessigb
  Tutor
  Jul 02, 2016
  Thank you for your suggestion.
  
  So finally I decided in favor of the PC-Engines APU.1D4 router which can route 400-500 Mbit/s, has 4 GB DDR3 RAM, a dual core AMD processor at 1 GHz and a 16 GB server-grade SSD. It also has 3 gigabit Ethernet interfaces that are connected through PCI-Express.
  It will be running pfSense.

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