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Cosmikus's avatar
Cosmikus
Follower
May 17, 2020
Status:
New Idea

Allow certain public IPs to access forwarded ports

Netgear is talking about high security in the WiFi Routers. How about providing a feature to allow only certain public IPs or regions to access the ports configured for forwarding to inside/private IPs. Right now, if you configure port forwarding, that hole in the firewall is available to the whole world, which decreases the security of the connection. It should not be hard to augment the port forwarding feature with options for allowing certain public IPs or regions/countries.

1 Comment

  • schumaku's avatar
    schumaku
    Guru - Experienced User

    Internet->Router and Intenet->Port Forwarding firewall rules are overdue for decade(s) - this feature has been requested many times.