Shutting down unnecersary ports and services on an ER605

Shutting down unnecersary ports and services on an ER605

Shutting down unnecersary ports and services on an ER605
Shutting down unnecersary ports and services on an ER605
3 weeks ago - last edited 3 weeks ago
Model: ER605 (TL-R605)  
Hardware Version: V2
Firmware Version:

I have just bought and installed an ER602 to allow to use use network fallover as a standalone device (i.e. without an Omada controller).

Looking at the ports it is listening on, it seems ports 53, 80, 443, 1723, 2601, and 8080 are open (on the LAN side, I have not yet checked on the WAN side, even though that would in fact be the more serious problem is anything at all was open on the WAN side).

53 is DNS, and 80 and 443 are for web management and so all would be necersary.

8080 I am guessing is providing me with a web proxy service, but can I disable this, and if so, then how?

I have no idea what 1723 or 2601 are being used for, and can they also be disabled?

Is there likely to be anything at all open on the WAN side, and if so how can they be disabled.

Equally, these are TCP conections, which are easier to detect, but are there likely to be any UDP ports open (except for 53 for DNS)?

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Re:Shutting down unnecersary ports and services on an ER605
3 weeks ago

Hi @gegb 

Thanks for posting in our business forum.

Upgrade to the latest firmware and review the ports again.

The listed ports from you can be found with a purpose if you Google them.

They are used for services and if you intend to close them, you may experience a problem. For example, the PPTP VPN port is at 1723.

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Re:Shutting down unnecersary ports and services on an ER605
3 weeks ago

  @gegb 
My current firmware release is 2.1.2 Build 20230210 Rel.62992

If port 1723 is for PPTP VPN then my use case has no requirement for PPTP VPN so I would like to know how to shut that down.

Why is port 2601 open, and if there is some service I need to shut down that port how do I go about doing that?

As I said earlier, I would guess that port 8080 is providing an HTTP proxy, and I would wish also to shut down that service if possible.

Regards,

George.

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Re:Shutting down unnecersary ports and services on an ER605
2 weeks ago
Just checjked again and I could not see any PPTP VPN configured, so the question is why are ports for PPTP VPN open on the ER605 if no connections for PPTP VPN are configured on the web interface?
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