On 01/08/2020 02.28, mike wrote:
On 7/31/20 5:44 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 31/07/2020 23.11, mike wrote:
Quick answer: you do not need anything. Also, possibly you can not do anything.
Question: are you logging to your router from your internal network? If so, forget the warning about an insecure connection. The bad guys must connect to your internal network first, which probably means that they have to get inside first, and if they do, who cares about the router?
Of course, it means that your WiFi, if you have it, must be secured.
OK so it is a local network and I'm good...don't know why I was getting those msgs then....
Because the messages come from a machine, not a human. A human looks at the context and has experience. The message is correct, but the human tells you to ignore it. All as it should be.
Then, can you do anything anyway? No. The routers doesn't have a hard disk where you can write software modifications. It has a ROM that can be flashed with another firmware, and that road is not easy.
(you would have to install the cert on the router, and modify its web server so that it responds on https. Not easy. The only practical way to do it is get an alternative firmware and install it, if feasible. I do not recommend it.)
If the answer to my question is that you log into the router via internet and http, then... don't do that. Ever. Find out if the router has ssh and use it instead. Then go into the router configuration and disable external http port. And perhaps some other possibilities.
well I do this to update the firmware or change the settings like adding ipv6 with a browser....that's what the router
instruction book said to do....I have never used ssh, what would you do with that ? I kind of know what it is but never
used it....Thanks for all the help....
ssh just gives you access to a terminal, like the Linux terminal, with raw commands in text. But it just happens that the transmission is encoded and safe, while http is not. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)