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Nighthawk VPN Stops Responding
My new NightHawk XR700 VPN stops working after a few hours or a day and I have to reboot the router to get it back. No log errors or anything, it just stops responding. I've tried disabling some QOS functions, etc, but nothing works. Anyone have any ideas on this?
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Re: Nighthawk VPN Stops Responding
Just to clarify, are you talking about the VPN Service function in the Settings menu, or the Hybrid-VPN feature?
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The VPN Service feature in the settings menu. Not responding again this morning after working for a few hours yesterday until I disconnected.
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Attached is a screenshot of my settings, I am using it with a Windows 10 desktop. It seems the VPN portion of the router locks up even if I don't use it after being left alone for a few hours. I have to reboot it using remote management on the mobile app and then it comes back for a time, but stops responding again after a few hours or hour of use. Something continues to make the VPN service lock up. I don't see any VPN errors in the logs.
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Re: Nighthawk VPN Stops Responding
The port 443/TCP is used explicitly for ReadyShare access, for the LAN side https://routerlogin.net (or https://[LAN-IP-address]), and well possible internally (!!!) for the remote access even if the WAN facing remote access port is configured to a different one.
Any specific reason for using 443/TCP? Probably for an attempted bypass of some business firewall...
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That's right, it's one of the few opened. I could also try 80 of course or see what else is open. But why would that cause the VPN service to lock up until the whole router is restarted?
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I think the implementation is just very substandard, no checks for effectively required and already used ports - the VPN service does start somehow using this port, until something happens e.g. some other daemons restarting, on the Netgear routers. Not the first (and not the last time) we're reading this here...
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Re: Nighthawk VPN Stops Responding
Ok, I'm trying something else then, I've set my AT&T router to NAT to a different port than 443 on the Nighthawk for VPN and set the port on the VPN to the default port. So I am 443 to the AT&T router, then NATing back to 12974 on the Nighthawk. I've also restart the Nighthawk to make sure all the services will be happy. Trying it today.
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Re: Nighthawk VPN Stops Responding
Ok, it just locked up again, no change. It worked for like a hour, then locked up, restarting the nighthawk brought it back.
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Here's my config now, back to the default ports on the nighthawk, NAT-ing from 443 on the AT&T router.
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I don't see how that would work, the AT&T router/modem is in front of the Nighthawk, as it has to be becuase it's uverse and the fiber has to plug into their stupid modem.
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Re: Nighthawk VPN Stops Responding
Nope, tried all that, it does work fine, for a few hours, then the VPN locks up and is non-responsive until I reboot the router, same as before.
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