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How to turn off the remote management on Unify Wifi router

I don’t know why the world had made fuss over this.
But certainly TM had their reason to have the remote management enabled after the first installation.

I could understand, possibly sometime it could be just misconfiguration had messed up, hence customer would get disconnected.

This is based of my own experience with some of our customer did actually change the network setting on a FIXED IP router after we left the site after installation. And guess what? the customer did made BIG noise about it after it render the system to be useless after that. i.e what to expect.. when they changed the FIXED IP routing into a DHCP mode, and would you expect all the port forward will still work ?

I was able to diagnose/collect evidence and understand the “what-had-change” is because remote management was enabled. Imagine what would happened if the remote management was disabled. I guess would be needed another 2-3 trip wasting time trip just to address some “stupid but acting smart” customer..

However to disable it , is just quite simple.
Just go to Maintenance->Device Administration-> Remote Management.

Untick it. Save !

AND SOMEONE EVEN CALLED THIS IS A BACKDOOR ?

I was like WTH! that wasn’t even crack/hack lah…
is a normal feature with such a router.

“Just disable it lah” then (if s0meone is pretending to be so smart ) I don’t think someone with enough network-enabled knowledge would had missed out this ..!

p/s : .. shut the f**k up.!

Namran Hussin: a soft spoken guy... with exceptional interest in computers and technology. I love to learn new thing and also love to break thing for the sake of learning.. but I do abide to the self-imposed limitation or certain thing such as social thing in life, thing can be done and thing that must be avoided at whatever cost such as drug,illegal tracking, smoke,illicit activity..etc.muahahaha let's share what we had in this short term of the life.! make it worth of the living.~

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  • The problem is:

    1) Most aunty and uncle types will never know how to log into their router and disable it. Not entirely a big problem as they are okay with the default settings, BUT ...

    2) ... At that time, TM set a standard "admin123" (not exact word) password, i.e. standard easy-to-guess password on all router.

    So the big hoo haa is not that TM can remote admin your router, the big hoo haa is that someone else can remote admin your router.

    For router, the impact is not so significant, worse case they can get into your personal data and copy out.

    But let's say similar situation exists with the phone VOIP/SIP setup. So if someone "borrows" your account and makes IDD calls ... and billed to you, you would not be quiet ...

  • ALSO ... it turned out later that whether the password is standard and simple, or unique and complicated makes no difference.

    There's a bug in the firmware of that router that lets someone remotely download the settings without having to provide an administrator id and password! 8-)

  • haha.. that's make sense to either replace this DLink DIR-615 or change it to support use custom router instead.

    However , TM had disabled it from the menu by now.
    plain locked up ? was thinking is it worth to re-flash with original firmware or not just because some script inside /www/bsc_wan.php got commented out?

  • I think original dlink firmware doesn't have the pppoe over vlan support. this I've custom done for tm.

    And so far if you flash it with dd-wrt, tv stops working.

    the other way is to set it to bridged mode + vlan tagging, and use back your old router. or is that the option tm disabled?

  • I think original dlink firmware doesn't have the pppoe over vlan support. this is custom done for tm.

    And so far if you flash it with dd-wrt, tv stops working.

    the other way is to set it to bridged mode + vlan tagging, and use back your old router. or is that the option tm disabled?

  • Anyone can let me know what is the user and password to login to my Dlink .

    and would like to know anyone have try to set up wifi router ? ( i am thinking to use my 3Com router instead of this DLink )

    Thanks
    WM

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