Netgear WNR854T firewall not working???

buachille · 9 Jun 2007 at 13:14

i bought this router

Netgear WNR854T 300Mbps Rangemax NEXT Cable Router - Gigabit Edition

as i wanted gigabit ethernet and stateful packet inspection.

i got it all setup and the went to shields up and ran an all service ports scan. with my old router every single port was stealth (green), but with the netgear they are all blue (closed) which is no good at all.

now before anybody asks me if i've set the router to dmz or anything else like that, i have not.

does anybody have any idea why this would happen? security on this router is meant to be better than on my old 3com but that just doesn't seem to be the case.

anybody got one of these?

Peg · 9 Jun 2007 at 13:21

buachille said:
i bought this router

Netgear WNR854T 300Mbps Rangemax NEXT Cable Router - Gigabit Edition

as i wanted gigabit ethernet and stateful packet inspection.

i got it all setup and the went to shields up and ran an all service ports scan. with my old router every single port was stealth (green), but with the netgear they are all blue (closed) which is no good at all.

now before anybody asks me if i've set the router to dmz or anything else like that, i have not.

does anybody have any idea why this would happen? security on this router is meant to be better than on my old 3com but that just doesn't seem to be the case.

anybody got one of these?

I have the same router and have just run the test and got all green. I am using firmware 1.1.26

buachille · 9 Jun 2007 at 13:23

i was on the latest firmware. wonder if its buggy?

buachille · 9 Jun 2007 at 15:40

right. it is definitely getting rma'd.

i tried an older firmware after reading your post, but still the same. total failure at shields up.

ocuk have given me an rma number nice and quickly anyway.

mike1210 · 9 Jun 2007 at 18:55

buachille said:
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does anybody have any idea why this would happen? security on this router is meant to be better than on my old 3com but that just doesn't seem to be the case.

anybody got one of these?

the router instead of not replying to port scans, seems to be replying with RST packets which will reset the connection. This will still block the connection attempts but a remote source will know something is there. Previous Netgears that I've tested dont reply so it's odd that that one does and others don't. Just a thought, enabling DMZ to a PC that doesn't exist may give you wanted steath rating

SPI not disabled is it????