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RAX120 login exposed?
I have checked the router setting for port forwarding / triggering, disabled remote management, etc. However the router's login prompt is accessible external using HTTP (not https though). Using http:...
Let's start over. I will over simplify this. The network would look like this (using incorrect IPs so don't try and access them).
RAX120 router with Internal network IP of router is 192.168.0.1. This is the IP used for accessing the router's web gui.
The External WAN IP of router is 71.71.40.5 which is connected to an internet provide like Spectrum, xfintity, (it doesn't matter which one)
I go to my local starbucks and buy an $8 coffee. I boot up my laptop and connect to the starbucks network. I go into chrome and type in.
This brings up a login prompt for my router. How do i disable the ability to remotely access the login of my router using the above url?
It can't be any simpler than that.
(latest firmware, no port forwarding, no port trigger, remote managment disabled, using a very strong password, etc.)
Try going to the web UI and Enable remote management and then disable remote management. It sounds similar to the QoS issue where QoS is enabled even though it shows as disabled in the UI. The only way to truly disable it is to enable it.... wait 30 seconds... then disable it... after that it may be truly disabled instead of just showing as disabled in UI.
Straitpipe wrote:Let's start over. I will over simplify this. The network would look like this (using incorrect IPs so don't try and access them).
RAX120 router with Internal network IP of router is 192.168.0.1. This is the IP used for accessing the router's web gui.
The External WAN IP of router is 71.71.40.5 which is connected to an internet provide like Spectrum, xfintity, (it doesn't matter which one)
I go to my local starbucks and buy an $8 coffee. I boot up my laptop and connect to the starbucks network. I go into chrome and type in.
This brings up a login prompt for my router. How do i disable the ability to remotely access the login of my router using the above url?
It can't be any simpler than that.
(latest firmware, no port forwarding, no port trigger, remote managment disabled, using a very strong password, etc.)