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    what ports are open by default on Merlin firmware?

    Hi, as part of routine security checks I recently portscanned all my home routers. On all my routers except my ASUS AC-66U only 2 essential ports were open on the LAN side and none on the WAN side. On the ASUS router, *A LOT* of ports were open on the LAN side, most of them apparently...
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    Padavan's Custom Firmware

    If I understand correctly, Padavan's firmware is based on Asus firmware for N56u etc. Where is it documented which version of the Asus firmware Padavan's releases are built from? Or has the firmware diverged significantly from Asus stock? Secondly, what is the approach to security underlying...
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    [VERY IMPORTANT] Asus routers are compromised.

    The very first thing I do when I install firmware is ensure that the WAN access for everything is turned off (including the UI), and this setting is correct in the UI. But 8443 still shows as open on GRC (and Nmap) scans. Firewall and NAT are enabled. 515 and 9100 I killed by the measures I...
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    [VERY IMPORTANT] Asus routers are compromised.

    To be clear, this was a scan of the WAN IP and the results are confirmed by grc.com's "Shields Up". That being said, according to "lsof -i :8443" etc. only port 8443 appears to be associated with a listening process. However, it would be nice to be able to close these ports on the WAN side...
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    [VERY IMPORTANT] Asus routers are compromised.

    closing all outward facing ports An nmap scan on my AC66U (running latest Merlin) shows 515/tcp open printer 8443/tcp open https-alt 9100/tcp open jetdirect 9998/tcp open distinct32 I have set it not to allow access to the admin interface on the WAN side but the port appears...
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