Security Concerns. C7000v2

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HeadPhoneJack wrote:

Hi Kitsap, thanks so much for the info. Yes, i have seen that and confirmed that DLNA is NOT enabled on my settings.and i have used the linked as a guide to inspect the expectation. 

 

as for a crowded RF environment, that is a negative. I  live in a fairly rural area and although i can see my neighbors, none are close enough to interfere via their equipment. 

Can you please advise what your answer would have been had i said yes? i am interested in this because although i am not in a crowded RF area, perhaps the solution lies a the manufactured RF environment from a party trying to infiltrate the network.   

thanks so much! 

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If you had a crowded RF environment with a number of "electronically" close neighbors, it could complicate the process of tracking down the device where the DLNA server is running. 

Any number of devices connected to your network can be host to a DLNA media server besides your router.  Computers, phones, tablets, televisions, game stations, etc. can often be configured, or by default are configured for a media server.

Through the application you provided the screen shot from, or from the router user interface, click or double tap on the connection to reveal additional details.  What you are looking for is a MAC address of the device where the connection is associated.

Do a web search for the MAC address.  The first three groups of alpha numeric characters should identify a manufacturer.  It may not be a manufacturer you recognize as it could be the manufacturer of the Wi-Fi radio in the device you are trying to identify.  Not the manufacture's name on the outside.

If per chance the MAC address you identify is the address of your router, then you have not been successful in shutting down the server running on your router.  Remember it is not unusual for devices to have multiple MAC addresses.  For instance, a router could have one for the Ethernet connections and one for each Wi-Fi radio band.

If you are connecting to a new iPhone, it has a MAC address randomize feature that can present several addresses to the connection.  Newer Samsung phones as well as Windows 11 computers also have that feature.