Re: WiFi enabled cable modems or WiFi routers for Linux?

On 09/07/2024 17:26, Pancho wrote:

On 09/07/2024 16:25, Andy Burns wrote:

Nuno Silva wrote:
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Popping Mad wrote:
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that is often bad it that link is through a cloud service.

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What!? So far I've only seen web admin interfaces that are on LAN
addresses. Which manufacturers are doing that?

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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 ...
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 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.