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Unwanted Remote Login To My LAN
I keep getting LAN Access from remote entries in the log on my Orbi RBR20. UPnP is dissabled. I have added some of the IP addresses to the blocked list on my NAS. What can I do/check please?
You are, of course, correct. The NAS can be programmed to be sophisticated about who to admit (and who to reject). The Orbi is a more simpleminded gatekeeper. It is either "let people knock on this door" or "turn everybody away." Who gets admitted is up to whoever is running the door.
If you tell Orbi to allow connection to the NAS (or any other local resource), it is up to the resource to determine who should (and who should not) be granted access.
Thank you for your reply. Ah, right. That is probably what is happening then.
However, the NAS can block IP addresses and can also do it by country. The Russians and Asia are already blocked so I would have thought that they would not get a login response?
Why Orbi doesn’t have this feature is beyond me. It would stop these scans dead.
However, the NAS can block IP addresses and can also do it by country. The Russians and Asia are already blocked so I would have thought that they would not get a login response?
Why Orbi doesn’t have this feature is beyond me. It would stop these scans dead.
You are, of course, correct. The NAS can be programmed to be sophisticated about who to admit (and who to reject). The Orbi is a more simpleminded gatekeeper. It is either "let people knock on this door" or "turn everybody away." Who gets admitted is up to whoever is running the door.
If you tell Orbi to allow connection to the NAS (or any other local resource), it is up to the resource to determine who should (and who should not) be granted access.
- OK thanks - love your analogous prose - brilliant.