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Security issue: Cannot disable OPEN network NETGEAR_EXT on EX6120
Hi,
I've just bought and setup the EX6120 but there is a bit of a problem. The OPEN wifi (without encryption) called NETGEAR_EXT is all the time enabled and I cannot find a way to switch it off. Ev...
So my above post made me realise that the NETGEAR_EXT has a different mac address than the two other ones ... I think it's someone else's wlan network. I reset the factory settings and during the setup, I notice that there are indeed two wlans with the same ssid. Mine being the 2nd one
airport -s | grep EXT NETGEAR_EXT a0:40:a0:6b:62:6c -60 11 Y DE NONE NETGEAR_EXT 14:59:c0:ad:52:05 -46 11 Y FR NONEAfter the setup completes, the 14:59:c0:ad:52:05 is no longer visible.
On other words, I was accessing some else's wlan thinking that it was mine. Sorry about the confustion
ok sorry, let me rephrase.
I'm not talking about the two extended wlans *_2GEXT and *_5GEXT. Those were correctly created and propected by a PSK. I'm talking about the NETGEAR_EXT that is created at the step "Connect With Web Browser Setup" of the manual you linked. This network seems to be still up and when I associate to it it give me internet access.
In the following you can see the two MyHome_2GEXT and MyHome_5GEXT wlans. Those work as expected. There is also the 3rd open NETGEAR_EXT
airport -s | grep EXT
NETGEAR_EXT a0:40:a0:6b:62:6c -82 11 Y DE NONE
MyHome_2GEXT 14:59:c0:ad:52:05 -40 9 Y FR WPA(PSK/TKIP,AES/TKIP) WPA2(PSK/TKIP,AES/TKIP)
MyHome_5GEXT 14:59:c0:ad:52:04 -48 44 Y FR WPA(PSK/TKIP,AES/TKIP) WPA2(PSK/TKIP,AES/TKIP)
So my above post made me realise that the NETGEAR_EXT has a different mac address than the two other ones ... I think it's someone else's wlan network. I reset the factory settings and during the setup, I notice that there are indeed two wlans with the same ssid. Mine being the 2nd one
airport -s | grep EXT
NETGEAR_EXT a0:40:a0:6b:62:6c -60 11 Y DE NONE
NETGEAR_EXT 14:59:c0:ad:52:05 -46 11 Y FR NONE
After the setup completes, the 14:59:c0:ad:52:05 is no longer visible.
On other words, I was accessing some else's wlan thinking that it was mine. Sorry about the confustion
Glad to hear you got it figured out. Hopefully the other person knows enough to reset their device since their login was changed! :)
