A username and password are being requested by http://192.168.1.254. The site says: "Netopia-3000"

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crubleigh

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This popup keeps coming up on random webpages :
A username and password are being requested by http://192.168.1.254. The site says: "Netopia-3000"
Some pages have it, some don't. If I close it down it just says, "Login Failure You have entered an invalid username/password. The router is protected. You need Admin privileges to access this page. Please try again.

Return to last page" It happens to everyone on the network. Is this a provider issue, a security issue or something else? Please help. Thank you.
 
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It looks like it is your LAN router, perhaps something is trying to open a port on the firewall and the router wants an admin to ok it? Normally your common ports like 80, 443, 22 etc will be open by default so internet browsing is no problem. Many firewalls by default allow ports to be opened automatically by requests from within the LAN. If the firewall is set to be 'strict' then it will not open any new ports from inside or outside the LAN and will require an admin to configure so. If you have dropbox or iTunes or something that is trying to get out to the cloud (like its normal sync/update messages) it will try to go out its default port thru the firewall, and a strict firewall policy will block it. That could prompt the...
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It does it on some pages some days, some days different pages. The site I'm trying to get to might work tomorrow, and this one might not.
 
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"A username and password are being requested by http://192.168.1.254. " yes
 
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It looks like it is your LAN router, perhaps something is trying to open a port on the firewall and the router wants an admin to ok it? Normally your common ports like 80, 443, 22 etc will be open by default so internet browsing is no problem. Many firewalls by default allow ports to be opened automatically by requests from within the LAN. If the firewall is set to be 'strict' then it will not open any new ports from inside or outside the LAN and will require an admin to configure so. If you have dropbox or iTunes or something that is trying to get out to the cloud (like its normal sync/update messages) it will try to go out its default port thru the firewall, and a strict firewall policy will block it. That could prompt the router to get admin privileges to allow it.

I'd log in to the router and set the firewall to allow everything internally generated and see if this fixes the issue. Then go back in to your router and set the firewall policy as you need it. Since this is a work LAN I'd suggest being picky about which ports can be opened internally and block everything externally unless you have a VPN going. Any webservers need to be in the DMZ
 
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