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Jun 02, 2025
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Most Service Ports No Longer In Stealth Mode

Greetings,
I have the following NETGEAR product:

Nighthawk 4-Stream AX1800 WiFi 6 Router (RAX10)
Serial Number: 

All of my router's service ports used to be in stealth mode.
Testing was done at ShieldsUP (https://www.grc.com/shieldsup).
After applying the following updates, all of my service ports are closed but only about a dozen are in stealth mode.

Router Firmware Version V1.0.18.164
Router Firmware Version V1.0.19.172

Has anyone found how to resolve this issue?
Thanks!

  • Sadly same issue here out of the first 1024 ports only 3 are stealth all other are closed.
    (my RAX10 is on firmware version 1.0.19.172)

    When i disabled the "protection engine" all ports do go stealth.

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  • I too have have a Netgear product:

    Nighthawk Tri-band AX8 8-Stream AX6600 WiFi 6 Router

     

    All of my router's ports used to be in stealth mode too.

    Testing was done at ShieldsUP (https://www.grc.com/shieldsup).

    After applying the latest update, all of my service ports are closed but only about a dozen are in stealth mode randomly.

    Router Firmware Version prior to update V1.0.15.146
    Router Firmware Version after update V1.0.19.172

    I have the same issue, as yet unresolved.

     

    What gives Netgear?  There is no update on the website for router firmware (RAX 70) version V1.0.19.172.  And yet the routers' UI showed me that there was an update.

    • hurry_arise's avatar
      hurry_arise
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      Thank You for your input!

       

      Hopefully, NETGEAR will have a solution for us soon.

      I also noticed a discrepancy between what firmware is available on the website and the update available through the router UI.

      The website shows that only Router Firmware Version V1.0.18.164 is available for download and manual installation. The router UI shows that the latest Router Firmware Version is V1.0.19.172.

       

      I love IT. Everyday is a new challenge!

       

       

  • I too have this on a RAX10 with most recent firmaware.  A RAX10 with older firmware does not have this issue, what gives? I want full stealth on all ports, but its only on the first 100 or so ports.  Please fix asap. 

     

    Thank you. 

  • I ALSO have this problem, Router is a Netgear Nighthawk RAX54v2. I recently have been getting TCP SYN Flooded daily, 100s of entries but none are saying if they are blocked or anything just that they happened on tons of high # ports. I've researched how to stop it for over 3 weeks and NOTHING. The router has no ability to stop it and cant make SYN cookies. Also cant even stop it with 'block services' because it only blocks LAN IPs and NOT Virtual ones.  It's HORRID and slows me down so I tried to figure out if i can HIDE from it. If i STEALTH my ports then they can't try to SYN them right? So I used GRC and... 80% of my ports are CLOSED and only a handful are STEALTHed. 

     

    So yeah... no help from Netgear, newest farmwear is up to date and all that. Netgear NEEDS to do something about this, im tired of these floods.

  • Sadly same issue here out of the first 1024 ports only 3 are stealth all other are closed.
    (my RAX10 is on firmware version 1.0.19.172)

    When i disabled the "protection engine" all ports do go stealth.