Nighthawk R7000P printing...

[blenderpilot]

Hey everyone. 

I read a lot about R7000P printing papers when Armour security is active. I want to keep it that way, but I would like to stop the system from printing 4 pages every week. Looks like this: 

Which setting will stop this, other than stopping the whole protection service.

PS: Photo only visible in editing mode... so here is what's printed:

GET / HTTP / 1.1

Host: 192.168.1.15:9100

User-Agent: curl/7.59.0

Accept: */*

and 4 more like that...

[antinode · Accepted solution]

> I read a lot [...]

   Thanks for the helpful links.

   A Web search for, say, "User-Agent: curl/7.59.0" should find many
similar reports scattered around the Web, affecting various printers.

   What you're seeing is an attempt to fetch a web page (and some other
data) from your printer, using a program/library called cURL.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURL

   Sadly, rather than send those requests to the usual HTTP port, 80,
the offending program is sending them to the printer data port, 9100.
The printer interprets data arriving at that port as material to be
printed, hence it prints the stuff, leaving everyone disappointed.

   Apparently, the offending program part of the Armor software.  Until
Netgear supplies an update with a fix, your options seem to be to
disable Armor, or live with the annoyance.  Without access to the
problem code, the reason it's doing this may remain a mystery.

[DarrenM]

You could go to attached devices and try to figure out what device is the 192.168.1.15 or you could block that device from the network with the Access control.

https://kb.netgear.com/23289/How-do-I-configure-Access-Control-or-MAC-Filtering-on-my-NETGEAR-router...

DarrenM

[blenderpilot]

Thank you for the reply. I know what is on that IP. It's the printer. If I block it, well I can't print, can I? I'm trying to prevent netgear armour from scanning the ports like it does, that causes printing papers twice a week.

I disabled it now, and If it doesn't print any more, I guess I cancel my subscription.

[antinode · Accepted solution]

> I read a lot [...]

   Thanks for the helpful links.

   A Web search for, say, "User-Agent: curl/7.59.0" should find many
similar reports scattered around the Web, affecting various printers.

   What you're seeing is an attempt to fetch a web page (and some other
data) from your printer, using a program/library called cURL.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURL

   Sadly, rather than send those requests to the usual HTTP port, 80,
the offending program is sending them to the printer data port, 9100.
The printer interprets data arriving at that port as material to be
printed, hence it prints the stuff, leaving everyone disappointed.

   Apparently, the offending program part of the Armor software.  Until
Netgear supplies an update with a fix, your options seem to be to
disable Armor, or live with the annoyance.  Without access to the
problem code, the reason it's doing this may remain a mystery.

[antinode]

>    Apparently, the offending program part of the Armor software. [...]

   Should have read:

   Apparently, the offending program is part of the Armor software. [...]

   Possibly worth a try:

      [...] Please reply to this post and share your experience with
      NETGEAR Armor. [...]

      https://community.netgear.com/t5/x/x/m-p/1863299