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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...
It appears that the RBRE771 firmware may be configured differently than older Orbi routers. My RBR50 and RBR750 routers both "stealth" every port that has not been deliberately port forwarded or opened for VPN.
GRC is a convenient "easy to use" tool. Users can duplicate this using any Port Scanning utility. For example, this is how ford.com scans:
Probably something an engineer at Netgear might find interesting.