NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.

Forum Discussion

xaustie's avatar
xaustie
Guide
May 17, 2025

Odd RBR750 Netgear log behavior - a feature?

I recently upgraded my RBK753S setup from the really old V4.6.8.2_2.1.9 to V7.2.7.15_5.1.16. The upgrade went flawlessly. Everything is working just fine. There is only one thing that is different now and this may be a good thing. I email the logs to myself once an hour. I have all the items selected in the logs panel. I have noticed that the logs from the new firmware are consistently MUCH larger than the old logs. The increase in size is due to having MANY lines like this:

 

[LAN access from remote] from 38.182.139.10 port 44456 to 192.168.0.7 port 443 Saturday, May 17,2025 11:18:15

 

I used to have these same lines in the old logs - it is just the new logs have many more.
I do have an OpenVPN server running on a Fedora box at 192.168.0.7:443.
I have that box registered in the Netgear Port Forward config.
Any thoughts on why so many more entries in the log? This new behavior started the instant I upgraded the firmware.
I know there are scanners out there and this pinging is "normal" - that is not my question. My question is why the Netgear is logging so many more with the latest firmware.

rbk750

2 Replies

  • xaustie's avatar
    xaustie
    Guide
    May 18, 2025

    Turning device off may no difference. Removing the PF Config for the device resulted in no more entries in the log. I have re-enabled the device. My only guess at what is happening is that the logging when I had the old V4.6.8.2 was not a thorough as it is now. I consider this issue closed.