New features:
- Supports Scheduled system reboot
- Scheduled WAN restart
- SSL-VPN Wizard
- Optimization of firewall rules movement (UP/DOWN)
Issue(s) are resolved since last release V4.3.0-19 :
- Edit the wireless profile's Broadcast SSID and enable it, but it cannot work
- SIP ALG GUI option getting disabled automatically on changing routing mode from NAT to classical or vice versa
- When Router's MAC Address type is "Use this computer's MAC Address" or "Use this MAC Address", Router RADVD can't get IPv6 Advertisement Prefixes by WAN stateless prefix Delegation.
- Port Forwarding related issues when it configured from SSL-VPN Wizard
- Unable to run IPERF, HTTP traffic over IPV6 PPPoE WAN
- IPv6 firewall rule not working when service group is associated
- Not able to edit the service group while firewall rule is disable state
- Customize SMTP settings
- When "Change of time by NTP" is enable and Router time is modified, there isn't any log record about it in system log
- Octet 4 of ip address do not support 255 in remote management page
- SNMP subnet mask Octet 1,2,3 only input 255,the Octet 4 can't input 255
- Support for SSL-VPN in windows 8 64-bit machine
Known Issues:
- Error prompt information for Edit button in 'Users > Domains'
- PING traffic is not getting stop untill we stop and run while blocking ping traffic.
- Device is accepting Incoming traffic from one WAN host while lan host is running traffic to multiple wan hosts through port triggering
- Traffic selectors should be any-any by default in add VPN policy page (currently subnet-subnet)
- IGMP Proxy behind NAT is not supported
- Device is accepting max 15 bandwidth profiles, below the expected max of 32
- VLAN host is not getting IP when the VLAN profile assigned to port is disabled.
- Device WAN IP is showing in SSL-VPN portal URL when user login from LAN side
- XAUTH (CHAP) VPN client tunnel with greenbow clients is not establishing
- Unable to ping through VPN tunnel in Diagnostics page with VLAN subnet as traffic selector
- After Successful connection through WPS PIN method, status message is not correct
- IPv6 Traceroute displays a blank page when trying with domain name
- The device is accepting the multicast mac address in source mac filtering page and lan groups page.
- Control sideband drop down list showing wrong information in radio settings page
- Disconnect button in IPv6 status page (when WAN is in static) not functioning and connection time is not updating
- Upgrade/Downgrade issue in Windows 7 IE9
- Wierd logs are coming in DHCP Log page and "Clear Log" button is not working
- Device taking around 15 seconds to display the LAN groups page when clicked on it
- DHCP relay functionality is not working across VLAN's until unless once WAN got up
- Able to see wireless logs with "Local0-wireless" tag and with "kernal-kernal" tag
- Connection reset functionality for all connection types and schedule reboot -- side effect of time being readjusted when there is no internet reachability
- To be release noted on the NFS version support.(Only support NFS v4 mount command. not support NFS v2 and v3, not support "showmount" command)
To Upgrade:
IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO NOT POWER-CYCLE THE UNIT BEFORE THE UPGRADE COMPLETES! IF YOU DO INTERRUPT THE UPGRADE, THE ROUTER WILL BE RENDERED USELESS!
- Using the Download Link below, download and extract the new firmware to a convenient place such as your desktop. The filename after extracting is FVS318N_v4.3.1-22.img
Download Link: http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/FVS318N/FVS318N-V4.3.1-22.zip
- Using a browser, login to the router as admin.
Note: Reboot the firewall before beginning the update process. - Select Administration > Settings Backup and Firmware Upgrade from the main/submenu.
- In the Router Upgrade section, click Browse.
- Locate the downloaded file and click Upload.
This will start the software upgrade to your VPN firewall. During the upgrade process, the Settings Backup and Firmware Upgrade screen remains visible and a status bar shows the progress of the upgrade process. The upgrade process can take up to 10 minutes. When the status bar shows that the upgrade process is complete, it can take another 10 minutes before the wireless VPN firewall reboots. - When the reboot process is complete, log in to the wireless VPN firewall again. (If you can see the unit: The reboot process is complete when the Test LED on the front panel goes off.)
- Select Monitoring. The Router Status screen displays, showing the new firmware version in the System Info section of the screen.
Last Updated:10/17/2025
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Article ID: 24626