FVS318Gv2 WAN to LAN throughput

Hello johnakajohn, 

Thank you for the update, we'll check the support case and see if this is a valid workaround since we do not really suggest accessing the firewall via TelNet without the approval of the engineering team. 

Thanks, 

Hi johnakajohn,

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Kind regards,

BrianL
NETGEAR Community Team

Hello,

I have the same issue, Please could you tell me how your fixed it.

Thanks

Dan

johnakajohn,

Is it alright with you that you share how did you make it work via telnet? :) 

Regards,

DaneA

NETGEAR Community Team

As per this:- " we do not really suggest accessing the firewall via TelNet without the approval of the engineering team. " I think what they should really do is contact support as my method may not work for them and I cannot accept any responsibility for any harm they do to their system by trying this.

It should also be noted that I did this with a mac, on a pc you will need to install a tftp server of some kind and maybe putty.

With that in mind what I did was

1) copy the firmware .img file to the tftp servers default directory (for tftpd on a mac its /private/tftpboot)

2) on a mac run the following to enable the tftpd server:-

                                            sudo launchctl load -F /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/tftp.plist

                                            sudo launchctl start com.apple.tftpd

    on windows start whichever tftp server you are using

3) telnet into the FVS318Gv2, ona  mac I did this directly, in windows you may want to use something such as putty

4) login as the admin user

5) the firmware upgrade command is iirc (if you press return after each part the system will prompt you with the next available command / parameter):-

util firmware_upgrade <filename> <server_ip>

 if you cant work out the two parameters to the firmware upgrade command above you probably shouldnt be doing this....

If you are successful you should see the system upload, check and then install the firmware, I could downgrade and upgrade but not all the way to the original firmware.

 here's the output from my upgrade back to 4.3.3-6 after downgrading:-

FVS318Gv2> util firmware_upgrade FVS318Gv2_v4.3.3-6.img 192.168.1.4
FVS318Gv2_v4.3.3-6.i 100% |*************************************************| 26224k --:--:-- ETA
chmod: /mnt/tmpfs/tr69Instance.map: No such file or directory
Start upgrade ...
/var/image/FVS318Gv2_v4.3.3-6.img length is 0x199c000(26853376)
filename : ASL firmware
filelen : 0x199bf00
filecrc : 0x19d79729
file version : 4.3.3-6
kernel offset : 0x100
kernel size : 0x7c2272
fs offset : 0x8fff00
fs size : 0x109c000
calculate crc is : 0x19d79729
crc check PASS
Writing File System to Flash ...
Done.
Writing Kernel to Flash ...
Done.
>Firmware Version Updated

hope this helps, but before doing this be ready to accept the potential consequences !

Hi johnakajohn,

Thank you for providing the step-by-step procedure.  I really appreciate it. :)  This will really help our fellow forum users.

Cheers,

DaneA

NETGEAR Community Team