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New - RAX120 / RAX120v2 Firmware Version 1.2.8.40 Released
New Features:
Supports the XunYou gaming feature (for China only)
Removes the gaming feature, Funjsq (was supported for China only)
Enhancements:
Improves system stability. <Maybe a fix...
mudbone wrote:
I have noticed that ever since I installed the new firmware my RAX120 (v1) only logs admin login attempts.
Have you been into the browser graphical user interface (GUI) for the router to check what the browser is set to log?
ADVANCED > Administration > Logs
Prior to the new firmware I was getting a lot of DOS Attack errors as well.
It would probably be too much to ask, but perhaps Netgear has finally found a way to suppress these fake alerts.
I did not factory reset the router after the firmware upgrade.
New firmware should not normally need a reset, but it is the first thing to try if you have problems with new firmware.
Backup the device's settings first, just in case it doesn't fix the problem and you want to recover the settings. But be warned that even if the reset does work, retrieving the settings may break things again.
@michaelkenward wrote:
"It would probably be too much to ask, but perhaps Netgear has finally found a way to suppress these fake alerts."
I had to do a double take on that comment. Those DOS alerts are not fake and there is supposed to be a way to suppress them if you don't want to see them. All you have to do is uncheck a box.
I was still not seeing the DOS messages in the log so I factory reset the router tonight and it did not fix the issue. So either the router software is no longer blocking the DOS attempts or just not logging them.
I don't have time at the moment but it looks like I am going to have to go backwards on the firmware. To much stuff was broken in this version. The log needs to work properly.
mudbone wrote:
I had to do a double take on that comment. Those DOS alerts are not fake and there is supposed to be a way to suppress them if you don't want to see them. All you have to do is uncheck a box.Most of them are. This is a well known "feature" of Netgear routers that dates back years.
Search - NETGEAR Communities – DoS attacks
Have you tried an IP lookup for them?
- Michael me ward is right, I have had issues with that feature for years. I always disable it has caused me issues with a lot of legitimate stuff. In my experience almost all of the supposed attacks in my logs were not actual DDOS attempts.
The checkbox is named "Known DoS attacks and Port Scans". In the older version of the firmware 1.2.3.28 it was working. It stopped working in this newer version. I have always checked this checkbox because I am wanting to see what is hitting my router from the outside. I have version 1 of the RAX120 router and have already factory reset it after I saw it was not working anymore and the reset changed nothing. The firmware developer broke it and that is a bad thing. If you read the release notes you will see that they made a change to support a Chinese game. I really hope that the developer did not break this function on purpose so that the Chinese military could hack into the network without being caught. Might just be paranoia but we are not on the best of terms right now with the Chinese government.
