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RBR760 lost settings, now won't allow recreation
Apologies for the vague title... For the past few days connectivity for several devices has been unstable so I decided to reboot the Orbi via the mobile app. After rebooting, the app detected the Or...
Just this week I had the same issue with my RBR50. Wanted to test something on Port Forwarding and got that bizarre message. Opened and closed Port Forwarding screen a couple of times and suddenly, there it was.
Today the same thing is happening. What I observe is that even though the error message appears, the port is actually being forwarded. When I delete the service, the port is no longer being forwarded.
How do I know?
- Netgear routers support NAT Loopback.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_address_translation#NAT_hairpinning
When I point a browser at my public IP address, the connection request is forwarded to the correct internal device. - The port I forward for test is to my Pi-hole web page (http) and within a minute the Orbi log showed some bozo on the internet had already tried to connect to it.
What happens if you define the port forwarding rule and then ignore the stupid message?
Unfortunately, in my case that port is not forwarded. That thought did occur to me originally so I had tested it - apologies for not including that detail in the original post.