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Where is the management page?
I just unpacked the brand new night hawk AX5200/RAX48 wifi 6 router. Trying to set it up using the desktop web browser. Physically connected the router with the ethernet cable on one of the LAN por...
Because that's the web page address of the router on the LAN side, not the WAN side! All routers have this address. Been like this for a while.
Thanks. Found that the router maps the management IP to www.routerlogin.net and possibily www.routerlogin.com. While it's convenient, I think this could potentially be a huge security risk when the router hasn't properly mapped the ip. A malicious site could spoof the url and content of the router page to gain as much info about the router config as it can. The least Netgear could've done is use an unused top-lelvel domain like routerlogin.netgear or routerlogin.local to help with preventing the spoof. I would think *.local is more appropriate in this case.
I'm finding little nuggets like this and really don't feel that confident about the netgear line of products.
One can use 192.168.1.1 as well to get to the routers web page after it's set up.
Most router mfrs have the url host name as well. Seen this across many brands.