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Netgear Prosafe FVS336Gv3 Leaving Telnet port 23 open
I am running a PCI Compliance vulnerability check on my network, and I am being flagged for having port 23 Telnet open. I have read that this is closed by default so I'm not sure why it is appearing....
You may need a serial cable in order to do this. You may turn on the telnet on your windows pc or you may download a putty application. Please try resetting first the firewall to factory default let's see if port 23 will still be open right after that.
For putty application, Select Telnet then input the IP Address of the firewall. Just login using your credentials for admin user and please follow the instructions on the CLI manual(page 188).
Regards,
Hi,
I entered the commands as shows in the manual, but when I enable_ipv4 N and enable_ipv6 N and save and exit, the port still appears open. And I can log right back in from Terminal
May I know where the firewall is connected? Is it connected directly straight thru a modem or a modem/router? I may suggest you to remove the firewall to the network just to isolate the case then check if the port 23 is still open. I suspect there is another router on your network that is causing this issue and if not, try resetting the router to factory default.
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