Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Pancho Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: WiFi enabled cable modems or WiFi routers for Linux? Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2024 21:27:32 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2024 22:27:34 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="713f2352698a112b7ad16893ac1181d6"; logging-data="1609878"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX196J2xkTePRkxnYZMvQ0kPIfbfU8/Tj0WA=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:1Fu5piumEKHPteDbG841E1C4ISU= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2587 On 09/07/2024 17:26, Pancho wrote: > On 09/07/2024 16:25, Andy Burns wrote: >> Nuno Silva wrote: >> >>> Popping Mad wrote: >>> >>>> that is often bad it that link is through a cloud service. >>> >>> What!? So far I've only seen web admin interfaces that are on LAN >>> addresses. Which manufacturers are doing that? >> >> Not my own, but I've seen a Linksys mesh system that requires you to >> create a cloud account, then use a mobile app to login to the cloud >> configure the devices ... >> > > My Mercusys Mesh Wifi System only has a Cloud UI. > Actually, this is misleading. The Mesh WiFi is controlled by an app on my Android Phone. It isn't a cloud service. The phone app normally connects to a cloud web server when I run it, but it doesn't need to. It controls the WiFi access points via the WLAN. It also works when the phone is cut off from the WAN/Mobile provider. My WiFi access points are fire wall blocked from the WAN. A LAN IP can route to the WAN through a WiFi access point, but a WiFi access point's own IP has no external WAN access. I guess this isn't as bad as I made it seem. Maybe they do it because it was cheaper to develop an Android UI than it was to develop a Web UI. Security wise, it may be no worse than a locked down local web-server interface. I'm not smart enough to know.