Motorola's NVG510 DSL modem... not very good

14.03.2012

The code is also required to change the access code and, oddly, while the supplied code is simply 10 numeric characters, any code you'd like to use "must contain characters from two of these categories: alpha, numeric, and special characters". Do as we say, not as we do ...

As security goes, this device has no clear strategy and has the feel of something that was left to a junior engineer to design. I'm amazed that this product could have passed the technical selection process for AT&T.

The various entries you might see in the log aren't explained anywhere I can find and, while some of them are decodable, others are not at all obvious. It also looks like the logging system is buggy: All devices that disconnect and then reconnect are almost always listed as reconnecting after however long it was plus 30 days and 16 hours ... for example, here's the log entries for a device that disconnects and reconnects after 18 seconds:

2012-03-13T07:06:36-07:00 L3 sdb[306]: Wi-Fi: Client a4:d1:d2:71:c1:c0 left XXXX

2012-03-13T07:06:36-07:00 L3 sdb[306]: Wi-Fi: Number of clients associated 2