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BR500 - Block IP's by Country/Region
I have a BR500 Router. Is it possible to block IP's by country/region? If so, how?
Hello,
Not by country, but you can restrict IP ranges under the traffic rules in the BR500 interface. Is there a reason why you would like to restrict a specific countries IP range?
On the Bitvise SFTP server there are many (in the thousands) entries of logon attempts from China and Russia. Bitvise allows me to block those by country/region. I would like my router to do the job of firewalling the traffic from those countries/regions rather that the server. I see no need for their traffic to be passed into the LAN.
So there is no way for the BR500 to do this?
Is there a small business router/firewall that can?
Managing a boatload of subnets to block seems quite tedious.
The BR500 does not support that feature at this time. It is a good idea and I recommend to bring it up in the Ideas Exchange section to raise awareness on this feature request:
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Idea-Exchange-For-Business/idb-p/idea-exchange-for-business
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