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NIGHTHAWK M6 & M6 PRO Connectivity Issue Resolved!
Hello NIGHTHAWK Community, A new software update is now available and being pushed over the air to all AT&T M6 Pro and M6 devices to address the recent Ethernet issue. If your device does not show PRI version 4.10 under Device Information, please check for updates manually from your device. We thank you for your continued patronage! Best, NETGEAR TeamMR6500 no longer connecting without battery
I purchased a MR6500 from Amazon. I set it up and it worked great with the battery removed and antennae installed. I had to do a factory reset because I couldn't remember my admin details and needed to login into the attwifimanager site. After the reset I tried to setup the Plugged In: Max performance with battery removed. It says it needs to reboot to enable this mode. I let it reboot and took the battery out, but the device doesn't connect any more. I tried taking battery out before and after the reboot and neither will work anymore. The device just turns black and will not come on unless I reinstall the battery. Is there something I am missing.M6 and IP-passthrough with routable static IP
I have an M6 Pro (MR6550) and a T-Mobile business internet account, and I'm unable to use the M6 in passthrough mode. The M6 (the hotspot) does some pretty inexplicable things. Like ARP my firewall from 192.168.3.1. As I said, my firewall has a public routable (non RFC-1918) address, so 192.168.3.1 is not going to be adjacent on the subnet, and therefore my firewall will drop the ARP request at a minimum, and potentially trigger the IDS as there being misconfiguration of a peer on the network or even someone doing malicious probes. It also sends SSDP packets to my network segment as multicasts. Why? Only hackers use SSDP on a WAN interface: to figure out (1) if you're misconfigured and (2) to know what sort of machines are on your network so they can tailor attacks after fingerprinting the hosts and looking up their attack surfaces and vulnerabilities. But more to the point, it's a modem/bridge. It should be operating at layer 2 on the Ethernet side, and layer 3 on the 4G/5G side. The correct behavior is trivial: (1) When the APN provisioning is received from the 5G carrier, PROXY ARP the default gateway's IP address with your own (M6's) MAC address (or GARP it, that works too if the firewall has been sysctl'd to accept GARP's on a public interface... which is sometimes used for man-in-the-middle attacks on public networks). (2) Then ARP REQUEST the firewall's IP address so you know where to forward the packets. That 2nd step is likely unnecessary, since most IP neighbor implementations cache the address of an ARP requestor in anticipation of their being return traffic (i.e. some sort of answer). You don't need SSDP. Or mDNS. Or to be trying to figure out anything about what's attached to the firewall. That's just suspicious behavior. Also, don't IPv6 SSDP me if I'm not provisioned for IPv6! That just fills my logs with noise. If I do a ping -c 1000 8.8.8.8 then I see spans of 8 or 9 packets being passed, then 20 or so dropped, then 8 or 9 passed, then 20 or so dropped... until the test completes. How did this not turn up during homologation testing? I'm getting 62-70% packet loss!!!Orange Light
I have a Nighthawk M6 Pro. On the Home Screen, I get an orange triangle with an exclamation mark inside it. I understand this might be an error or maybe a notification that needs attention BUT I cannot find where to find out what this means. The manual is no help. This device is out of warranty so Netgear will not provide any support.MR7500 M7 Blocking VPN clients with MacOS Tahoe 26
Hi, I run a MacBookPro M2 through a MR7500 Nighthawk M7 (on the Telstra network). I use OpenVPN client software to connect to a remote business network, and it has been running fine for years. However after recently upgrading to MacOS Tahoe 26 on my laptop, iPad and iPhone, my M7 is blocking my Open VPN connections. If I run my iPad, iPhone or Macbook Pro directly through a seperate 5G hotspot everything runs as expected. If I run my iPad, iPhone and MackBook Pro through my MR7500 Nighthawk M7 via a Wi-Fi or wired connection, OpenVPN will connect but I cannot access the business network. I have found I need to run OpenVPN through ProtonVPN (tunnel in a tunnel) to access the business network, which effectively hides OpenVPN from the M7. I reset the M7 back to factory default, but still have the issue. I have uninstalled and reinstalled VPN software multiple times. I have the same problem with the Tunnelblick VPN client, so it is not just OpenVPN. Looks like Apple may have removed some legacy IPsec protocols in Tahoe OS which is tripping up the M7. Does anyone have any suggestions?
