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Block ReadyGear NAS From Accessing WAN
Hello, I am new to ReadyNAS and the home NAS market in general. What I would like to do is ensure the ReadyNAS has no WAN access. I want to be able to access it from the devices in the home, but ...
Blocking WAN access to anything on your LAN is the responsibility of your router, not the individual devices. As long as you have not set up port forwarding or any kind of VPN (which would still need to be hacked into unless you were careless setting it up), the firewall built into your router should do the job for you.
Blocking WAN access to anything on your LAN is the responsibility of your router, not the individual devices. As long as you have not set up port forwarding or any kind of VPN (which would still need to be hacked into unless you were careless setting it up), the firewall built into your router should do the job for you.
Great. Thank you both for the info!
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