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SRX5308 Traffic meter - what the heck?
Pictures speak a thousand words. This was open in a tab on an SRX5308 running FW 4.3.4-2, the Tab was refreshed periodically for a while. The traffic made sense, and kept growing over time within ex...
Yes, I see the same thing on an FVS336Gv3. If I had to guess, the Netgear is incapable of showing data amounts past a certain number, and either resets & begins counting again or just shows those powers-of-2 (which I have also seen). My theory would be that the firmware is using a 32-bit integer variable to store the data amounts, and is overflowing when the value is maxed out, but of couse I don't have firmware source access and so can't be certain.
Seeing as there hasn't been a substantial feature update to any of the current FVS line in a number of years..... I wouldn't hold your breath for a fix.
And consider trying an older version of the firmware as this might have been broken in newer firmware releases. If this is a critical feature for your usage, I would run the older firmware. The firmware versions are more like 'feature sets' than sequential anyways.
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