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Unable to Fully Reset RBR50 Router After Encountering Guest Access Issues
Firmware: 2.5.0.38 This is a RBR50 router with two RBS50 satellites. One of the satellites is connected wirelessly and the other is connected via an ethernet switch. Everything was working fine u...
You are running v2.5.0.x firmware, it was very buggy and was retracted by @netgear. A manual update to v2.5.1.8 is recommended if you are running the v2.5.0.x releases, Search this forum for v2.5.1.8 for more details. You can download v2.5.1.8 for your RBR50 and RBS50 from https://www.netgear.com/support/product/RBK53#download
As for resetting, the DNS settings of the router are set by DHCP from your ISP, so that is expected. All other settings would revert to their defaults.
I appreciate the suggestions.
Using FING on the Guest network, I pinged all the device IP's and and scanned for open ports. Nothing came back.
I don't understand how FING can see all the device details without being accessible.
Using FING on the Guest network, I pinged all the device IP's and and scanned for open ports. Nothing came back.
I don't understand how FING can see all the device details without being accessible.
I connected my Smartphone to my guest network and ran the FING app on it. It still reports the devices on the LAN, and can recognize most device types by their MAC address. No open ports are found on the devices, nor can they be pinged, as the guest network blocks them as it should. I also used another smartphone network app to look for UPnP and Bonjour services and none were found.
So if you cannot ping or see any open ports to IP addresses on your LAN from the guest network, then it is working as it should. FING is a powerful tool, so it can dig deep to report back the IP addresses on the LAN of a guest network.
Retired_Member wrote:
I appreciate the suggestions.
Using FING on the Guest network, I pinged all the device IP's and and scanned for open ports. Nothing came back.
I don't understand how FING can see all the device details without being accessible.
- I appreciate the feedback and testing!
Thank you! Retired_Member can you please tag the solution and mark this as resolved?
Retired_Member wrote:
I appreciate the feedback and testing!
Thank you!