Redirect webui access to router.asus.com

[Dave Rutherford]

This is an option to turn on and off in the admin section of the webui under system. It is set to off, by default, what exactly will it do if you turn it on? Will it allow you to access the webui remotely?

 

[pete y testing]

i believe that if its enabled and the internet is down a splash page will pup up telling you so and directing you to the gui or setup page , if its disabled and the internet goes down you just get cant connect , its got nothing to do with remote access or accessing the webui remotely

 

[shauno100]

This is an option to turn on and off in the admin section of the webui under system. It is set to off, by default, what exactly will it do if you turn it on? Will it allow you to access the webui remotely?

Normally your router web management page is accessible by the http://routeripaddress (e.g http://192.168.1.1/), when you turn this option on and attempt to access http://192.168.1.1/ for example it will redirect to http://router.asus.com instead, this behaviour was introduced in recent firmware revisions by Asus and RMerlin provided an option to turn it off due to numerous complaints.

As far as i know even though http://asus.router.com appears to be a public web address it is in fact internal so nothing to worry about.

 

[john9527]

As far as i know even though http://asus.router.com appears to be a public web address it is in fact internal so nothing to worry about.

Except if you are using an option that causes DNS lookups to bypass dnsmasq (DNSFilter and OpenVPN selective routing are two I can think of immediately). Then it will resolve to the public web address.