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Aspirant

Dec 31, 2016

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FVS318N allow login "By Source IP" with IPV6 address

Hi All - I'm trying to enable limited WAN side administration of my firewall by specifying IPs to allow. I have this working great on IPv4 from my work machine but my home computer (Comcast) onl...

DaneA
Jan 05, 2017
trentm,

Kindly upgrade the firmware of the FVS318N in a ladderized manner. For example, upgrade the firmware from v4.0.1-67 to v4.1.0-27. Then from v4.1.0-27 to v4.1.1-8 and so on until you reach the latest firmware v4.3.4-2. Use a PC that is directly connected to the FVS318N in upgrading the firmware. You may download the firmware versions of the FVS318N here.

Let us know the results.

Regards,

DaneA

NETGEAR Community Team

DaneA

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Jan 01, 2017

Hi trentm,

Welcome to the community! :)

Just want to clarify, are you subscribe with an IPv6 internet connection with Comcast?

The current firmware v4.0.1-67 you have on the FVS318N is an old firmware. I suggest that you upgrade the firmware in a ladderized manner. For example, upgrade the firmware from v4.0.1-67 to v4.1.0-27. Then from v4.1.0-27 to v4.1.1-8 and so on until you reach the latest v4.3.4-2. Perform the firmware upgrade using a PC that is directly connected to the FVS318N. You may download the firmware versions of the FVS318N here.

Regards,

DaneA

NETGEAR Community Team

trentm

Aspirant

Jan 03, 2017

Thanks DaneA

Let me try to clarify a bit...

The network with the Netgear firewall is at a colo. The colo network and my daytime system both use IPv4.

At home I just have a regular home account with Comcast and was surprised to see when I browse to whatismyip.com it reports an IPV6 address.

I was hoping to be able to set the user security by ip address to only allow my daytime and home systems to remotely administer the firewall.

Filtering remote admin of the firewall to my daytime IP (v4) is working correctly. I am trying to setup rules to also allow remote admin of the firewall from my house but can't get that screen to show IPv6 input.

Maybe when I catch up on firmware it will allow both...?

Thanks again.

DaneA
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Jan 04, 2017
trentm,

At your home, it seems you have an IPv6 internet subscription that is why it reports an IPv6 address when you browse whatismyip.com but not where the FVS318N is deployed since you mentioned you have an IPv4 connection at the "colo" network.

Refer on the image below. Do you have an option to select IPv6 on your FVS318N as shown where the arrow is pointed to on the image below?

As reference, kindly read pages 312-313 of the FVS318N reference manual here.

Regards,

DaneA

NETGEAR Community Team
- trentm
  Aspirant
  Jan 04, 2017
  DaneA
  Thanks for sticking with me. Pictures worth a thousand words. Didn't notice I could insert images in my earlier posts :/
  
  I do not have that:
  
  This is what I was unclearly attempting to ask in my OP "Documentation all shows a IPV4 | IPV6 radio selector in upper right but I don't have that."
  I guess my real question is: is getting that option to appear a configuration issue, or a firmware/version issue?
  
  I also mentioned "Other Network config screens like WAN Settings (where docs also show the radio selector) give me separate tabs for 4 vs 6"
  My version:
  
  Documentation:
  
  This all seems to me to point to a firmware issue, but was just hoping to get confirmation of that.
  Seems I probably need to make a trip to the data center.
  - DaneA
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    Jan 05, 2017
    trentm,
    
    Kindly upgrade the firmware of the FVS318N in a ladderized manner. For example, upgrade the firmware from v4.0.1-67 to v4.1.0-27. Then from v4.1.0-27 to v4.1.1-8 and so on until you reach the latest firmware v4.3.4-2. Use a PC that is directly connected to the FVS318N in upgrading the firmware. You may download the firmware versions of the FVS318N here.
    
    Let us know the results.
    
    Regards,
    
    DaneA
    
    NETGEAR Community Team