GT-AX11000 - WHY? communication w/ Korea, Singapore, Taiwan.

[Nux]

GT-AX11000.    I have it in AP Mode.  The GT-AX11000 is not performing NAT function.
I have a Firewall / IPS upstream.   Topology.  [ ISP ] --- [ Firewall ] --- [ GT-AX11000(AP Mode) ]
I noticed the GT-AX11000 communicating ( A LOT ).

UDP, port ranging from 33437 - 33468, very sequential. & A lot of it!!   going to places like South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan, to name a few.

Here is a picture.

 Questions:

• Why?
• How do I stop it?  What setting(s) within the GT-AX11000 will stop this behavior?

Thank you

[jzchen]

Google 182.162.135.1 .  Maybe that will give you a clue as to what’s communicating with that IP.

[Nux]

My question is why the GT-AX11000 is sending/ generating traffic to Korea and other places.   The GT-AX11000 is the source of the traffic.  I know who owns that CIDR address,

why is this consumer grade router sending traffic to various DataCenters around the world?  
what is this router doing? And why!  

[jzchen]

Hopefully you don’t have some sort of malware (ie MeshAgent) on any Windows device connected to the AX11000…

[Nux]

The Router is in AP Mode, acting as a bridge with in my network. Which disables NAT.

 The traffic is sourced from the Asus product.   I cannot say this any other way.

 My clients do not have a virus/malware.  
It is the GT-AX11000 generating the traffic. The traffic is sourced from the GT-AX11000.

My question is to ASUS, why is this GT-AX11000 generating traffic to other countries like Korea, Taiwan?

[Voldemort]

Can you please shoot a 10sec video of router when aura illuminating rainbow effect ?

[Nux]

I’m sorry I do not understand.  Does the rainbow effect generate traffic?

[jzchen]

AP mode is more like a switch with WiFi.  If you remove all connected devices, (connected to the AX11000,) then it still does this?

[Nux]

I think the traffic is related to the management page.  Here is a video. Do you know what causes this traffic and how do I stop it.  other than upstream firewall rules.

[RettaHackett]

Have you found your answer?