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FVS318G Telnet LAN<>WAN firewall settings not working
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 ...
Thank you so much for trying it out.
But wasn't the FVS318G supposed to get me 1 Gbit/s?
It says Gigabit Router?
The worst thing is, that this router isn't in use for long now. I bought it about a year ago to replace this incredibly old Netgear router we were using that was even too slow for our current 21 mbit/s internet connection that we are probably going to upgrade in the next month to a 120 mbit/s one.
Thank you for your suggestions. I will consider them eventually if we upgrade to the 120 mbit/s. Right now, everything is still usable, as in it works.
I could also look into openwrt as a firmware to replace this one. It could probably increase the speed some more and fix some bugs.
To not longer keep you tied, I will accept your answer.
Although I still think it's a shame Netgear only offers a few months of support for their products, which is actually not even legal in this country. But I am not able to contract Netgear directly because of the lack of contact addresses.
Hey again,
LAN-LAN is gigabit, LAN-WAN throughput is a bit more limited.
FVS318Gv1 is pretty old, the oldest firmware I can find online is from 2010 and I'm not even sure that's the initial firmware for it but firmware was supported and updated for at least 4 years. It's weird that a reseller would sell you that model so recently especially since the V2 has been around since 2014.
Device comes with 90 days of setup support where you can get help with getting the device up and running, after that you will need a support contract for that kind of service. It does however not affect the hardware warranty of the unit, in case of a hardware failure you're covered by the hardware warranty which is longer.
But yeah, the ability to list outbound rules over CLI I guess is not the most important feature, so if it performs good enough for your usage then there's not really any point in upgrading at this stage I guess (other than future proofing the setup a bit), at least we have ruled out that this would be a specific issue on your unit / with your config.
Could it be that I have the v2 model.
I really do not know anymore.
The software is from 2014 and I bought the router in 2015.
I can provide a serial number or something in case somebody can tell me what model I actually have. It just says FVS318G on the front and back. Nothing more.
The list feature is not that important but the DHCP server's devices don't show up in the lan groups anymore.
I already opened a topic, although I haven't gotten any solution yet. It's just another software bug it seems.
I might just go ahead and build myself openwrt and flash it.
Given that that outperforms the stock firmware anyways is this probably the best way to go.
Based on the CLI output you're getting and firmware version you are running, you definitely have the V1.
Just for reference, this is what an example setup would look like in the v2:
Thank you, I see.
Would you recommend using OpenWrt as the main firmware?
I used OpenWrt on a few Netgear routers already and it seems to work fine. Do you have any ideas if it will affect performance?
EDIT:
Openwrt is not supported unfortunately.
That complicates things by a lot.
I just wonder why it wouldn't work. The device seems to be powerful enough and Linux is apparently working.
Netgear must provided the sources to the Linux that is running as a download because of GPL requirements.
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:
And for the FVS318G, FW 3.1.1-18:
http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GPL/FVS318_V3.1.1-18_src.zip
cheers!
- <p>Thank you! This is really helpful. We just got an offer from our ISP for an upgrade to 120 Mbit/s for a very reasonable price and we will very likely be upgrading soon.</p>
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<p>This means that the old router has to go as 25 mbit/s aren't enough anymore obviously. How is the FVS318Gv2 200.</p>
<p>Amazon reviews are rather unsatisfied with it for crashing too often (especially loosing configuration).</p>
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<p>Being a hobbyist, I was also looking into the BananaPi Router which seems to be a quite powerful platform. Does anybody have sub 200 euro recommendations for me?</p>
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<p>Cheers! </p>
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