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rclong
Jul 10, 2025Guide
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...
FURRYe38
Jul 11, 2025Guru - Experienced User
Historically we've never see all ports marked for Stealth on Orbi systems. Mostly been always closed save some of apps or devices connecting thru may change to stealth.
We've brought this up to NG before. I did this years ago on the CBR50 back then.
Just not sure if NG intends to follow what GRC puts forth.
Will see if anything happens here.
CrimpOn
Jul 12, 2025Guru - Experienced User
FURRYe38 wrote:we've never seen all ports marked for Stealth on Orbi systems
Beg to differ. GRC on my RBR50 shows the first 1056 ports Stealth (and has since the first time I found out about GRC years ago.)