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Sudden changes to port forwarding
I'm using R6400v2 and have been for several years. I run a web server on port 80 and 443, and allow ssh to my server from certain IP ranges. Port forwarding has been in place for years and has worked...
tcadell wrote:
The Advanced Admin -> Advanced Setup -> Web Services Management no longer has a flag to control outside admin access to the router, just the following:
Local Management: [ ] Always Use HTTPS to Access Router Not having an R6400, I cannot be 100% positive, but my Orbi RBR50 "Web Services Management" now appears to be the same. i.e. the option for "Remote Management" no longer appears. One hypothesis might be that the Anywhere Access feature of the various "apps" (Orbi app, Nighthawk app) is considered a more convenient and (in some crazy way) superior method of controlling a home router remotely. (If anyone had asked me, the response would have been "This is just plain STUPID." But Netgear ever asks my opinion.) One might also assume that a change such as this would be included in the Release Notes for the firmware update that removed it. (Ha)
My solution to Remote Management is to set up OpenVPN on the router and use an OpenVPN client to connect to the LAN and then a web browser to connect to the router. It is 10 times as much effort, but has the capability to reach every device on the LAN and is thus potentially more useful.
On the Port forwarding issue, I fear you may be back to "square one." i.e.:
- Are the ports actually open on the intended devices?
That power surge did not result in any changes to the target devices or their firewalls? - Where was that switch that failed in terms of the pathway from the internet to the devices?
- Are the ports still forwarded correctly in the router? (no IP address changes?)
Port forwarding only functions when the target device is actively listening on the desired ports. If anything has changed that affects this, then the router will not forward.
- Are the ports actually open on the intended devices?
tcadell wrote:
The Advanced Admin -> Advanced Setup -> Web Services Management no longer has a flag to control outside admin access to the router, just the following:
Local Management: [ ] Always Use HTTPS to Access Router
Not having an R6400, I cannot be 100% positive, but my Orbi RBR50 "Web Services Management" now appears to be the same. i.e. the option for "Remote Management" no longer appears. One hypothesis might be that the Anywhere Access feature of the various "apps" (Orbi app, Nighthawk app) is considered a more convenient and (in some crazy way) superior method of controlling a home router remotely. (If anyone had asked me, the response would have been "This is just plain STUPID." But Netgear ever asks my opinion.) One might also assume that a change such as this would be included in the Release Notes for the firmware update that removed it. (Ha)
My solution to Remote Management is to set up OpenVPN on the router and use an OpenVPN client to connect to the LAN and then a web browser to connect to the router. It is 10 times as much effort, but has the capability to reach every device on the LAN and is thus potentially more useful.
On the Port forwarding issue, I fear you may be back to "square one." i.e.:
- Are the ports actually open on the intended devices?
That power surge did not result in any changes to the target devices or their firewalls? - Where was that switch that failed in terms of the pathway from the internet to the devices?
- Are the ports still forwarded correctly in the router? (no IP address changes?)
Port forwarding only functions when the target device is actively listening on the desired ports. If anything has changed that affects this, then the router will not forward.