firewall

This issue has been annoying me since getting 2 individual ET12 units replacing 2 XT8 units which worked perfectly fine under the same use case. I have a local windows server with web panels and game servers (Minecraft in this case). WAN connections to opened ports to my local server seems to...

📌 Skynet v8 - Router Firewall & Security Enhancements The largest upgrade in Skynet’s 11-year history Built exclusively for ASUSWRT-Merlin, Skynet v8 delivers a fully modernised codebase with major performance, reliability, and maintainability improvements - while keeping the familiar...

Hi all! I've just set up a VPN server on my router and would like to restrict access to IP addresses from my country only. Can Skynet do this? I was able to ban particular countries, but this also affected outgoing connections. I know I can change the Skynet filter option from both to just...

Hi, completed a long overdue upgrade of Merlin to 3004.388.8_4 yesterday. My environment is on RT-AX88U with 256SSD. So far, no issues overnight. I do have the following Skynet v7.6.4 questions: 1. I have implemented a full ban of all countries through a compiled list of country codes, except...

Hi, I'm hoping someone can help me with a firewall issue I'm having on my RT-AX86U (Merlin 3004.388.8_2). I am port forwarding http/s (80/443) and bittorrent (port 51413). When I enable the main router firewall, http/s doesn't work so well - I can access it from outside my network, but it...

By default pfSense will port randomize all outgoing UDP connections (reference), which some say indirectly improves the privacy and security of devices behind the firewall. This basically turns NAT into a more restrictive level. for example, a device behind the LAN wants UDP port 48695 open...

Hi, can someone help me clarify a few questions around the usage of the following (if possible in the context of RT-AX58U) firewall inbound firewall rules port forwarding I read the following articles and am drawing the following conclusions (please correct me if I am wrong) Setup...

I would like to have my Plex server available to my IOT devices (TV;s) that are separated from my normal network but still on the same router (rt-ax86u pro) My home network is setup on 10.xxx.xxx.1 and the guest and IOT network is setup on 192.xxx.xxx.1 not sure how to safely do this other...

I wonder if anyone knows how easy/hard it is to attach a Firebox T25 firewall to a TUF Gaming AX6000 ? I just trying to get head around concept and wonder if all clients then need to go through the Firewall before or after the Router ?

I have found that I'm getting incoming traffic from a domain called naj.sk, a site I've never used I can't seem to block it's IP address 185.64.219.37. The services rule adds ok for my RT-AC88u with latest merlin firmware But if I try and add a URL filter it says applying changes but doesn't...

So I wanted to turn an old computer into firewall hardware. Could I use the input connection on the motherboard to utilize the hardware on the computer and output on a PCIE NIC to my router while running pfSense on Linux? or would it be better to sell my computer and get an open platform device...

Hello everyone. I have an Asus RT-AX58U router flashed with Merlin v.3004.388.6_2. Firewall is enabled, dos protection too, logged packets type set to both. I also enabled network services filter and set some rules to block connections from lan to specific ports or ip. Everything works if it...

Hello! I was looking through the logs of my RT-AX58U router and saw that the message "notify_rc restart_firewall" comes up sometimes. Usually after an attempted update, or sometimes after a reboot. Had about 14 instances of this happening over a couple of months. Is this normal/safe?

I like to add for the VPN access some policies or firewall rules which should only allow to access a single machine in the network for a given VPN Client / User. How Can I do that? Lets assume I have a server in my network "192.168.1.100" and a VPN user "server admin". The VPN Client IP Range...

Behind my AX86U I am monitoring a device via SNMP. The SNMP manager initiates the communication by using a non-standard port. So I created a forwarding rule that redirects the non-standard port to the internal device. Something like this: external [diff UDP port] -> internal [snmp UDP 161]...

Hi everyone. I'm pretty new to home networking. A while ago I setup an OpenWRT WiFi Router and that was quite complicated but I got it working. I'm now trying to better understand networking as a whole and design my own home network. I have been planning to build a NAS for file sharing, etc. and...

I am sure this kind of question gets asked a lot but I have been reading many different forums/threads/sites and I just cant figure out why Nmap is showing ports 80, 443 & 21 open on my router. I have UPnP & Port Trigger disabled & I only have 1 port forwarded which is for my Plex server. So why...

I'm just curious, how exactly does a smart lock, or a light bulb or a smart kitchen appliance pose a threat? If you have your router properly set-up, disabled UPnP, enabled the firewall and no port forwarding, then there's no way some remote hacker can enter my home network through a security...

Due to my ISP forcing me to use their router if I want to use their bundled VOIP service, since upgrading to FTTP I now have to have my ASUS sitting behind my ISP's router. Annoyingly they don't allow their router to run in a bridged mode. As much as I can I have tried to make it a native...

Hey guys. I just noticed that Skynet seems to be failing to start. The tab doesn't show up in the GUI, and logging in via SSH and opening the skynet script, it shows a status of failed. I've rebooted the router about 10 times in the past few days (just moved, setting up the network), and I've...