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mulox
Aspirant
Jan 16, 2017

FVS318N requires frequent reboot

I bought this firewall about 1 year ago and never upgraded the original firmware so it was very, very old, I think 4.0 or earlier, don't recall (now I am wishing I would have backed up the old firmwa...
Firmware
Troubleshooting
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ChenX
NETGEAR Expert
Jan 16, 2017

Hi mulox

Welcome to the community! 

If you upgrade to v 4.3.4-2 from very old firmware,I suggest you do a factory reset.

Or can you try to fix the ip address to see if it still has the issue?

 

Regards

mulox's avatar
mulox
Aspirant
Feb 15, 2017

First reset did not work, but a 2nd time did the trick... thanks!

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    SamirD
    Prodigy
    Feb 16, 2017

    You're welcome!

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