NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.

Forum Discussion

DSMIW's avatar
DSMIW
Aspirant
May 13, 2019
Solved

RN314 Creating External Connections

Greetings,

 

A little guidance please regarding unauthorised "Miscellaneous" connections to outside organisations being made by my ReadyNAS 314 without my knowledge. 

 

I am in the process of switching internal connections from AFP to SMB/CIFS and encountering performance problems.  I have been monitoring the ReadyNAS closely and was surprised to see in the "Connections" log that my ReadyNAS is making external connections all on its own  (attached screenshot).  Today it is apparently to Cloudflare, yesterday it was apparently to Amazon (50.18.202.68).  I have been turning antivirus on and off, but have not been running any other apps.  Should this be happening?  Can I stop it?

 

Thanks for any and all guidance,

Mark

 

  • Nothing to worry, ... ReadyCloud stuff, firmware and hotfix checks typically:

     

    root@RN516:~# netstat -ntnp
    Active Internet connections (w/o servers)
    Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name
    tcp 0 0 10.10.1.105:37744 52.18.224.100:443 ESTABLISHED 3406/xagent

    tcp 0 0 10.10.1.105:39504 54.241.104.57:443 ESTABLISHED 18293/curl

    ...

    tcp 0 0 10.10.1.105:54806 52.52.77.156:443 ESTABLISHED 14238/leafp2p
    ...
    tcp 0 0 10.10.1.105:57632 52.9.169.83:443 ESTABLISHED 14238/leafp2p

2 Replies

  • Nothing to worry, ... ReadyCloud stuff, firmware and hotfix checks typically:

     

    root@RN516:~# netstat -ntnp
    Active Internet connections (w/o servers)
    Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name
    tcp 0 0 10.10.1.105:37744 52.18.224.100:443 ESTABLISHED 3406/xagent

    tcp 0 0 10.10.1.105:39504 54.241.104.57:443 ESTABLISHED 18293/curl

    ...

    tcp 0 0 10.10.1.105:54806 52.52.77.156:443 ESTABLISHED 14238/leafp2p
    ...
    tcp 0 0 10.10.1.105:57632 52.9.169.83:443 ESTABLISHED 14238/leafp2p

    • DSMIW's avatar
      DSMIW
      Aspirant

      Greetings schumaku,

       

      Thank you very much.  Great to know.

       

      Mark

NETGEAR Academy

Boost your skills with the Netgear Academy - Get trained, certified and stay ahead with the latest Netgear technology! 

Join Us!

ProSupport for Business

Comprehensive support plans for maximum network uptime and business peace of mind.

 

Learn More