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C3700-100NAS Router forwarding my traffic to Africa IP when my or my wife's cell phone connects
Greetings,
I think I have a serious security breach, but I can't figure out if its the router or our i-phone's that are infected. I'm thinking more towards the router, because I have attached ...
That is so strange. I'm out of ideas on this one. As a work-around you can set the IP address on the phone to manual instead of DHCP under WIFI settings. You would need to do this for 2.4G and 5G if you connect to both.
Set the IP address to something like 192.168.0.150
Set the Gateway address to 192.168.1.1
Set the DNS address to 192.168.1.1 for the primary and 8.8.8.8 for the backup.
Obviously this is just a workaround and not a real solution to what is going on...
The settings on my iPhone appear normal with the expected ip using dhcp to obtain the settings automatically from the router. I see the expected up and no proxy is configured. I recently setup a vpn through phone guardian that connects to their server in the expected up range. I just recently set that up though as the issue was happening before I had set it up so I don’t think there is any issue with the von settings.
Do you see the same strange IP address show up in the router under Advanced/Administration/Attached Devices?
Also, what are the settings under Advanced/Setup/LAN Setup? DHCP address range? Do you have any Address Reservations set up?
Yes I do see it in attached devices. See picture. No I do not have any predefined ranges, it was the default for this model of router. See picture.
attached devices screen
That is so strange. I'm out of ideas on this one. As a work-around you can set the IP address on the phone to manual instead of DHCP under WIFI settings. You would need to do this for 2.4G and 5G if you connect to both.
Set the IP address to something like 192.168.0.150
Set the Gateway address to 192.168.1.1
Set the DNS address to 192.168.1.1 for the primary and 8.8.8.8 for the backup.
Obviously this is just a workaround and not a real solution to what is going on...
Thanks all for your ideas! I was hoping to find the root cause, but since I haven't had any luck in my searches online and you guys are out of ideas, I applied the work around to just staticly assign ip's to my devices and turn off dhcp. This appears to have done the trick as the iphones now connect with the ip's I configured and don't redirect to africa. Either way I'm getting a new router. Thanks!