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Fvs318gv2 connectivity issues
i have a fvs318gv2 with the latest firmware installed 4.3.3-6. It works great for about 10 minutes then it crashes. After it crashes I can ping it, but I can't access it through the gui. I reboot and...
I've tried this before, and it works; but I need a firewall that comes up by itself in a few minutes after a power glitch. My ZyXEL VFG6005N is just such a firewall.
A living is made over this network, and messing around to bring it back up is not an acceptable solution.
I can understand that. For what its worth, I've not found any vpn firewall that comes up 100% in under a minute. The cloest I've seen is the older Cisco rv016 and rv042--the rv042 was almost instant, but that was v1.0. The rv016s take 45s at best on v2.0 firmware.
Our Watchguard takes a few minutes and I usually give the 318Ns about 15-25m if not a full 30m. But to give the watchguard and 318s some credit, I reboot them just a few times a year, if even that.
The way I budgeted our router purchases was based on how much downtime cost us. Then from there I'd give a 'pita' factor too and come up with a number.
A few minutes is fine, but to have to play games with it booting before connecting cables is not acceptable. Yes, the FVS-318Gv1 and FVS-336Gv2 come up just fine by themselves.
I have lost so much time on this that I now just stash the FVS-318Gv2 and FVS-318N away and try new firmware as it comes out; but I cannot afford to lose anymore time and so rely on my trusty ZyXEL VFG6005N even though I have 4 different Netgear firewalls.
I agree 100% This is my 4th Netgear firewall. Each one always came back up after a power outage, except the FVS318Gv2. It's not that I'm trying to access the internet as soon as the power goes out, it's just that I'M TRYING TO ACCESS THE INTERNET WHEN THE POWER GOES OUT!
I have dozens of devices that connect through this firewall, and every firewall before this one would "JUST WORK" So far mine's been up since the last power outage (which has been a few weeks) and everything is working fine.
But to get to this point, took a couple weeks and a new firmware update...
Ricky
I am hopeful Netgear will get their act together, or they will end up needing to lay people off like Cisco recently.
I just took a look at Netgear stock... it has done amazingly good recently.
Zyxel makes some fine products from what I've read. If we didn't run into the deal on our watchguard, we would have gotten a zyxel as well.
I'll have to check out that model when I get a chance. We were looking at a usg50.
I hadn't realised this thread had not been closed, so opened a new thread
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Business-Wireless/FVS-318N-FVS-318Gv2-and-Arris/m-p/1195682#M2621
where a work around is suggested.
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