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SuperNASman
Feb 08, 2014Aspirant
Readynas Remote Using Public RIPE IP Address
The reason I'm here is because of unstable connections to my readynas via Readynas Remote. After a little reading I find that the 5.x.x.x IP address is a public address assigned to RIPE. I believe ...
StephenB
Feb 08, 2014Guru - Experienced User
Netgear should stop using the address range, but I don't think that is causing your connection issues via Remote. I think that is unreliability in the netgear cloud.
The main failure mode is that a system with the ReadyNAS remote client installed cannot reach the true 5.x.x.x addresses, because the remote VPN client will route traffic to those addresses to the the netgear servers instead.
The main failure mode is that a system with the ReadyNAS remote client installed cannot reach the true 5.x.x.x addresses, because the remote VPN client will route traffic to those addresses to the the netgear servers instead.
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