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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...
Thanks for the update. Just wondering if during the initial conversation the support person gave any indication, such as....
- "I have to find out what this 'stealth', 'closed', business means"
- "Ports are supposed to be.... what?"
Unfortunately the initial (and one subsequent) phone conversation was just a person from Netgear support asking for information. Some of what she asked seemed irrelevant and she could not explain the relevance when I asked (I provided the requested information anyway). She clearly is only an information gatherer and is reporting what she gathered back to someone else.