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Disable Netgear cloud management on R6230
I bought a Netgear AC1200 WiFi Router (Model no. R6230) for use in my employer's lab, and I need to figure out how to prevent it from "phoning home" to Netgear. Whenever I login to the web interface,...
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Michael, thank you for your suggestion. It looks like the Remote Management option documented in the user manual doesn't exist in firmware version v1.1.0.110_1.0.1, which seems to be the latest available. (Screen shot attached.)
Perhaps the router does not phone home, but the web page's JavaScript has the browser trying to reach assets on a Netgear server, and when it can, the web interface redirects the browser to the Netgear site, insisting on a login. The only way I can get to the web interface on the browser is if I disconnect the router's WAN interface. I am connecting to the router through its Wi-Fi. I can't think of any engineering reason to present a different set of menus to LAN users on Wi-Fi than on Ethernet.
Network trace showing accesses to Netgear servers.
ichabod wrote:
Network trace showing accesses to Netgear servers.
Which makes me none the wiser.
Maybe it is just checking for firmware updates.
