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fvs318n - Internet working only for wifi users
Hi there, Afters some attempts trying to get everything to work with my new fvs318n vpn firewall I do find a very odd internet access problem. For some reason my wireless devices do not have any...
Hello,
Have the exact same problems as mentioned above.
I have also drilled it down to a UDP FW-block-issue - found this thread later, so I am quite sure.
I agree that the option : Security | Firewall | Attack Checks | Block UDP flood is the 'magic bullet'.
However, in my findings, disabling it does _not_ solve my problems, it just makes it 'better'.
Enabling it and setting it to max (999) makes it much, much better - but still not perfect.
My intuition on what I see is that.
Enabling it with default 50 - worst ever DNS/UDP experience.
Disabling it is better than enabling with 50 - bad DNS/UDP experience.
Enabling it with 999 - OK DNS/UDP experience, but it still drops once in a while.
So.... what the ... is going on. I believe they have a few lines of code which hardcodes the UDP flood to something like 200, even if it is disabled?
That would fit with my experience.
Hope this can help someone before they throw it out, I was close to :-)
FW = 4.3.0-19 - and I _have_ made a hard-reset + manual configuration.
Brgds.
Jugger
Have the exact same problems as mentioned above.
I have also drilled it down to a UDP FW-block-issue - found this thread later, so I am quite sure.
I agree that the option : Security | Firewall | Attack Checks | Block UDP flood is the 'magic bullet'.
However, in my findings, disabling it does _not_ solve my problems, it just makes it 'better'.
Enabling it and setting it to max (999) makes it much, much better - but still not perfect.
My intuition on what I see is that.
Enabling it with default 50 - worst ever DNS/UDP experience.
Disabling it is better than enabling with 50 - bad DNS/UDP experience.
Enabling it with 999 - OK DNS/UDP experience, but it still drops once in a while.
So.... what the ... is going on. I believe they have a few lines of code which hardcodes the UDP flood to something like 200, even if it is disabled?
That would fit with my experience.
Hope this can help someone before they throw it out, I was close to :-)
FW = 4.3.0-19 - and I _have_ made a hard-reset + manual configuration.
Brgds.
Jugger
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