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Ports report 'closed' instead of 'stealth'
I just installed the RBE771/770 and ran Gibson Research's (grc.com) Shield's Up! 'port authority' scan. It reports that all ports are "closed", which means they are detectable by scans from the Inte...
What FW do you have loaded on the system?
Are you doing the GRC can with only one ethernet connected PC to the RBR and the RBS and ALL devices disconnected from the RBR?
Please post screen shots of the GRC results.
Do the uPnP port test pass?
No, I'm doing the test with my usual devices connected to the RBE 771, which is connected to a cable modem. Why would disconnecting devices on the LAN side of the router matter - the router should prevent those devices from being visible, and those devices certainly are not using every port. I've always gotten full stealth without diconnecting those same devices when using my previous router.
Yes, it passes the uPnP test. Here's the screen shot - as I said, it shows all ports closed instead of stealth and failed the true stealth analysis.