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makina2
May 01, 2019Aspirant
D6400
Hi, I am new to this forum but I have owned a D6400 router for 4 years. According to my logs, I have various unknown IP addresses trying to access port 80 on my router. Attached to this port is a lo...
- May 04, 2019
Thank you for your prompt replies to my question.
I have made the changes to port forwarding as suggested. Thinking about it now, it was an obvious solution but ......... I am wise after the event, thank you to all.
I now realise that much of this stuff is just as I knew it in the 60s and 70s but the terminology has been updated. In my day external ports were cable pairs and internal ports were either equipment numbers (uniselectors) or telephone numbers all jumpered on the MDF or IDF ........happy days.
michaelkenward
May 01, 2019Guru - Experienced User
makina2 wrote:
Hi, I am new to this forum but I have owned a D6400 router for 4 years.
It may not matter, but you have posted your message in the section of this community given over to General WiFi Routers (Non-Nighthawk). (This is easily done, given Netgear's impenetrable community structure.) Your device is a DSL Modem/Router.
You might get better replies, and find other answers, over in the appropriate section:
DSL Modems & Routers