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configuring the FVS318Gv2 for IPv6
I have a new FVS318Gv2 with the very latest firmware update, everything is running fine. Am now experimenting with some of the settings (I know, I should leave well enough alone!), and am confused about the IPv6 configuration. My ISP, Spectrum (formely Time Warner Cable) has rolled out IPv6, I've confirmed this by looking at the status on my Netgear Cable modem (and reading Spectrum online documentation). According to the Netgear reference manual, to change to IPv6 in the Prosafe you go to Network Configuration>WAN Settings>WAN mode and change the Routing Mode from "IPv4 Only" to "IPv4 / IPv6 mode." That part went fine, the router rebooted and came back online. The second part involves going to the next tab over, "Broadband ISP settings," and clicking the "IPv6" radio button in the upper right. For the Internet Address dropdown menu I"ve chosen DHCPv6 and selected the "Stateless Address Auto Configuration" radio button below. When I click the "apply" button at the bottom it says "Operation succeeded." When I click "status" it shows a good connection with an IPv6 address. But when I click out of that tab to somewhere else in the admin, it goes back to showing the "IPv4" radio button selected in the upper right. It's like the IPv6 settings I just saved get undone as soon as I leave. Any insights as to why this might be happening? Thanks.netgear fvs318gv2 setup in office with 2 lans and 5 static ip's
Originally we had a 24 port unmanaged switch with a active directory domain controller/dhcp that handled all of the office staff. There was one static ip that was used for a vpn with port forwarding from the Comcast modem to the domain controller (all built by someone else). the comcast modem was set to allow the domain controller to act as dhcp(this I was told was necessary for name recognition to work throughout the network) for the network. ------- We wanted web presence IIS 10, 2 DNS servers, Mail server, Database server etc.... we added an older hp proliant server with 12 threaded cpu cores (doubles to 24 in esxi), 64 gig ram, and 15 terabytes of disk space. We are running esxi on the server and have created two virtual machines with server 2016 datacenter on them. we upgraded from one static to 5. So I plugged the proliant directly into the comcast modem and configured the esxi host and two virtual servers with static ip's. This worked and I could configure the servers and everything functioned OK. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Problem --- The web site for the companies online point of sale/database, mail, basicaly anything hosted on the servers was unmanageably slow when accessed from the office lan. Basically, anything using one of the fixed ip's would not function correctly from the internal lan. I was not certain exactly why that was happening, when I would do a tracert to one of the statics it would go immediately to the 10.202.46.1 gateway then sit for 20 seconds and make one hop to the statics. What I thought would be faster was if it would route to the internet and then back to the statics. 1 thought was the esxi host would always get the domain suffix of the internal lan (hostname.XX##XX.local) even when it was configured with one of the static ip's and I tried to configure it with a fqdn using esxi dns setup. I think this may have slowed things down when trying to access the servers. Or The routing from the internal lan to the fixed ip's in the modem. caused by the modem not handling the dhcp and the lan not using the 10.1.10.1 network that the modem defaults. The lan is set up with a 10.202.46.1 network. Or I don't know --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My Fix -------- I got the fvs318gv2 and after a little of a learning curve I was able to set up the office lan 10.202.46.1 255.255.255.0 as one lan and set it to port 2. I then set up a lan for my fixed ip’s (this is where I think I am not set up right), 96.xxx.xxx.xxx with 255.255.255.248 (this gives me a network address 5 statics and an ip for the modem) and set it for ports 3 and 4. I then set the esxi host for one of the fixed ip’s and the two virtual servers were already set to two of the other ip’s . I also have the default 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0 lan set up on all the other ports and attach a laptop directly to the firewall to configure. I changed the comcast modem to act as it’s own dhcp so the firewall gets a 10.1.10.1 address from the modem. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Question --------- Is this the way to set up the public ip’s I think it’s going to work (right now the IIS for example is only available from the 10.202.46.1 network and not from the internet). I just figured that out last night when I tried to access the servers from home. But I am guessing that I just create rules for the public lan opening ports 80,53,25 etc and I should be live. (I am kind of waiting to see if I get an answer from you guys but I may go back to the office tonight and try to do that). Doing some reading it seems that I should keep my servers on a private lan and set all the public ip’s (haven’t figured out how to do that –help--) to the wan. Then forward all requests to the appropriate machine which seems more difficult but I want to configure it correctly and I am sure there are reasons if this is the way to go. I am also going to be setting up vpn access for several of the workers which I will do after I get the rest of the system working. I haven’t yet tried to do that yet one of the problems I may run into is that the firewall has a 10.1.10.xxx address from the comcast modem not public. However the comcast modem itself has a public in the 96.xxx.xxx.xxx the last ip of my 255.248 lan. Than address is accesable right now on the net so I believe I will be able to just port forward from the comcast modem to the vpn firewall to set up the vpn’s MAYBE ANY HELP HERE WOULD BE APPRECIATED ALSO. This setup completely fixed the slow response from the local lan to the statics (yay) Sorry for the long write up thanks for reading MarkFVS318Gv2 DHCP in DMZ
Can the FVS318Gv2 issue DHCP addresses to both the LAN subnet and a separate DMZ subnet? The idea is that i'd like to create a guest wi-fi and use the DMZ to issue IP Addresses separate from the LAN subnet. The manual indicates that DHCP can be enabled in the DMZ, however, it is not clear if it can be a separate subnet from the LAN subnet. There is a note in the manual on page 3-13 that indicates that the DHCP server in the DMZ should be the same as the LAN IP Addresses. This seems to defeat the purpose a separate DMZ with it's own port. "Note: The starting and ending DHCP addresses should be in the same subnet as the LAN IP address of the VPN firewall (the IP address that is configured in the LAN TCP/IP Setup section of the screen)." Just looking for some clarification. Thanks!FVS318Gv2 Fails after 15-30 minutes following a power failure/reboot
Following a power failure or power down/power up reboot, the unit will operate for anywhere from 15 -30 minutes and then go down: When it fails, it will respond to a ping, but shows that WAN addresses are unreachable. Access to the unit is also down when this occurs. I cannot access it via the web interface, or via telnet. It simply will not respond. I found the "GUI reboot" fix on this forum, and used the .reboot command from the telnet CLI. Since the unit rebooted in this fashion, service has remained up for nearly an hour now. The unit is running Firmware Level 4.3.4-2 (Most current release). From reading in this forum, it is clear that this issue has been causing nightmares for some time. Is there/has there been any work from Netgear to resolve this issue? It is clearly repeatable (at least from my perspective.) Here are more details that may help: ISP: Comcast Modem: Motorola Surfboard SB6121 When firewall is "down", I can connect a PC to the modem and access the internet Firewall: FVS318Gv2 Firmware: 4.3.4-2 Broadband settings: DHCP from ISP, Interface Speed: Auto, runnning at 1GB up and down. It's getting to the point where I will begin looking for another Mfr than Netgear. Maybe it's just this model, but a well documented problem like this that has not been addressed is eroding my faith in an otherwise solid company.