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RAX50 Bug: Advanced Access Control Table Cache Corrupted on 2.4GHz for Months (Firmware v1.0.17.142)
Hi everyone, I am posting this here in hopes that a Netgear Community Moderator or Engineer can escalate a severe, ongoing firmware bug affecting my Nighthawk RAX50 running firmware version v1.0....
When Access Control is enabled, my primary device (an iPhone 14) randomly loses internet access on the 2.4 GHz band and gets kicked offline.
Just that single device is affected?
This is a massive security and usability disaster. Advanced Access Control is a core feature that consumers pay for to protect their homes.
ROFL. The never ending dream based on WiFi industry marketing lies - from the security propsective MAC based ACLs are (on such a small device) moslty useless. Takes an average attacker like me some seconds, and I'll find a ACL "secured" MAC address on virtually any network.
FMI: https://smallstep.com/blog/mac-address-filtering-and-hiding-ssid-dont-work/