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Hacking Remote Administration
I left Remote Administration turned on for a while and was surprised to find my Orbi log now includes two separate groups of "remote login failure". One was 40 attempts. The other 100 attempts. Nei...
Oh, fudge. You are SO RIGHT. When Remote Admin is enabled, my Orbi:
- Responds to external ping, and
- Responds to https: on port 8443. My guess is that it would do no good to change the port number?
After disabling Remote Admin, my "respond to ping on Internet port" is checked, but is grayed out. I cannot "uncheck" it. WTF???
So, the Remote Administration URL that Orbi provides is how Netgear handles changes in Orbi IP's? (i.e. "https://myorbi.mynetgear.com:8443")
I had so hoped to avoid relying on the godforsaken "app" to do Remote Admin.
So, if the app works even when Remote Admin is not enabled, maybe I can use the app to reach my Orbi and turn on Remote Admin. Do my work, and then turn it back off?
CrimpOn wrote:........
After disabling Remote Admin, my "respond to ping on Internet port" is checked, but is grayed out. I cannot "uncheck" it. WTF???
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I overcame this limitation using telnet as follows: :)
root@RBR50:/# config set wan_endis_rspToPing=0
CrimpOn wrote:.........
So, if the app works even when Remote Admin is not enabled, maybe I can use the app to reach my Orbi and turn on Remote Admin. Do my work, and then turn it back off?
Unfortunately, you can't enable and disable the web GUI remote management from the app. The remote management setup in the Orbi app is only for the app's remote management (through your netgear cloud account).