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Unable to ping external server
Hello, I have a RN 516 running firmware 6.2.4. I've been trying to setup Bittorrent Sync on the RN, and it's working. But, I've been trying to use the option to setup predefined hosts. This s...
I agree that a fix is long overdue.
There were some practical reasons for doing what they did (they had to chose some address space, and 192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x would have both created some messy problems to solve). At the time it was expedient and seemed safe enough. Maybe providing a IPv6 version of remote is one way out of the box they are in now.
Here I think you are misunderstanding. Netgear has never actually used the 5.x.x.x address space for routing over the internet. What they did was somewhat different - they built a private (tunneled) VPN using that address space. The consequence is that they have blocked access to that space on machines with Remote installed, but from a routing perspective they have never used the addresses for internet traffic.
aschild wrote: BTW: Experimental does not mean "regular use", so you did either use it wrong, or your software is also experimental...
There were some practical reasons for doing what they did (they had to chose some address space, and 192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x would have both created some messy problems to solve). At the time it was expedient and seemed safe enough. Maybe providing a IPv6 version of remote is one way out of the box they are in now.
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