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Attempt to release incorrect UDP nat port from SELF
Two months ago, my Netgear router logs began to include intermittent entries that said, "Attempt to release incorrect UDP nat port from SELF." More and more of these entries began to show up. Cur...
Hi, JohnRo!
Thank you for helping me.
The firmware is v3.0_22.
I made no changes. It just started happening. The logs from six months ago had none of these entries.
Race
Hello race,
My suggestion is to update your firmware to the latest, we have to make sure that the errors you are getting are not coming from the bugs on older firmware versions. You can donwload the firmwares on this link, you are 5 (five) firmwares behind you need to upload incrementally.
Hope it helps.
Thanks,
This is BAD advice. Do NOT upgrade your firmware as a solution.
Since nothing has changed on the netgear, what else may have changed? Is your isp doing upgrades, speed increases, backbone changes? Did they change the modem they provide you? Any other network configuraiton changes?
Okay, I'll wait to do the firmware upgrades.
The ISP (Comcast) has apparently been doing numerous network upgrades in the area of many kinds over the past year. That is according to a Comcast tech.
Is it clear to anyone specifically what these error messages mean? When I look at the router diagnostics page (or LAN setup page, I don't remember exactly which at the moment), it look like the WAN address is 10.0.0.1, which seems to be wrong.
Race
The Comcast changes sounds like they could have a hand in it. I remember when Knology changed to the Arris c4 on their carrier side, my Cisco rv016 thought it was under attack from the nearly 100 packets per second of the c4 checking to see if my router was up. Knology or Cisco never resolved the issue even though it actually was causing the router to lock up and reboot every few minutes.
This class of devices have numerous bugs (in almost all manufacturers products) that will cause issues like this, and if you try to trace back every single one of them you'll end up doing more design work on the product than the manufacturer originally did.
Are the entries affecting anything? In other words, are you having any problems with the router? If not, I wouldn't worry about it.
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