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How to disable SSO login?
Hi here! I'm happy owner of Netgear WAC124 access point. Firmware Version V1.0.4.4 When setup first time I've created netgear account and registered the product. But on next logins it always re...
We use a firewall to block the WAC124's access to the internet. Typically a Meraki MX. This does not prevent network traffic from flowing through it or to the internet. It simply prevent's the WAC124's OS from accessing the internet. This disables the SSO and presents you with the local login. We do this with most consumer level and poorly supported gear. Had far too many Asus routers compromised. Unfortunately, this makes administration by remote network impossible. But that's also a good thing from a security standpoint. We then remote into a dedicated machine on the WAC's LAN to administrate.
If you are letting your cheap routers and APs have internet access, you're not doing it right. Those things get hacked all the time, cough, WAC124, cough.
That's even better indeed :-)
How did you program the firewall to prevent the WAC124-OS from accessing the internet and NOT prevent the other traffic, routed through the WAC124, to pass through?
I guess you programmed a filter of some sort in the firewall to filter out the WAC124-specific-traffic?
Is that relatively easy to do? Maybe I could do someting comparable in my 4G internetmodem...
('I'm not a support-tech and more a bit advanced "consumer" so I could use some pointers ;-))Thanks!
Using a Cisco Meraki security appliance (firewall) it's pretty easy. Click on a netwrok device and apply the default block rule or create a special rule.
Other firewalls with have ther own way of setting that up. In most cases, simply blocking the WAC124's IP or MAC from having access to the internet should do the trick. Such as denying all external IP traffic to and from the WAC.
Hope that helps!
Entering the MAC address of the Netgear router is absolutely the easiest and best way of getting rid of the ridiculous Netgear policy.
Only thing is that the Netgear router must be behind another router that accesses the internet.
If the Netgear is your only modem and router you can use the scripting work around.
So, get a good product to connect to the internet and use this Netgear crap for internal purposes only.
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