Storyline
Casual Member
Hello all
We have fairly recently got a new FTTP connection using (the excellent) Aquiss as our ISP.
They supply a fixed IP as standard and just for fun I set up a webserver on our NAS and so needed to set up port forwarding on the Huawei AX3 router. During this process I happened to type in our static IP without the newly opened port attached and was surprised to see this brought up the log in page for the router.
Is this normal ?
I have just been through a process of trying to improve our online security and I don't think I'm keen on this page coming up like this. I can understand that the router has to do something when it is contacted and maybe this is a perfectly normal response but nevertheless is there an easy way of stopping it ? I don't need an elegant solution - just silence/dumb inaction would be fine.
Sorry for such basic questions but as I usually make clear when posting on this excellent forum, I'm short on knowledge of such subjects and only get by in this space by relying on trial & error methods.
TIA
Paul
We have fairly recently got a new FTTP connection using (the excellent) Aquiss as our ISP.
They supply a fixed IP as standard and just for fun I set up a webserver on our NAS and so needed to set up port forwarding on the Huawei AX3 router. During this process I happened to type in our static IP without the newly opened port attached and was surprised to see this brought up the log in page for the router.
Is this normal ?
I have just been through a process of trying to improve our online security and I don't think I'm keen on this page coming up like this. I can understand that the router has to do something when it is contacted and maybe this is a perfectly normal response but nevertheless is there an easy way of stopping it ? I don't need an elegant solution - just silence/dumb inaction would be fine.
Sorry for such basic questions but as I usually make clear when posting on this excellent forum, I'm short on knowledge of such subjects and only get by in this space by relying on trial & error methods.
TIA
Paul