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Accessing router console from remote
I am currently facing network attacks towards my NAS. Luckily with little change to succeed given my NAS security configuration but still I would like to stop the traffic at port level, by disabling ...
Thanks FURRYe38 .
It confirms there is a need to be on the LAN to configure advanced parameters and that remote management of the router is barely for high-level parameters.
I will probably not go for the complexity of having a remote desktop just for that purpose.
I am still surprised that the "VPN" access is not working to access the console (VPN is imho seamless for the router: it should be as a machine on the LAN ...except if the router itself is doing the VPN - which it is doing in my case - and take "internally" into account the knowledge about the VPN-ization to filter accesses to console)
I am facing a similar issue today while attempting to access the router remotely (through OpenVPN).
At this stage I am still convinced it is due to my remote connection (the VPN being handled by the router, it may be treated in a special way) as I had usually no problem to connect to the console when on the LAN. And I didn't do any recent firwware upgrade so I don't see why it would suddenly stop functioning. But now reading your post I am a bit worried that I could have the same issue than you do. To be confirmed when I'll be back at home.