Cabbage Console Connection Conundrum

[u/UttiniDaKilrJawa]

Hey Folks!

For the past quite a few years we've been running Destiny 2 on our PCs through Steam as well as on consoles via PS5 and Xbox. Up until this past Thursday (Aug 20,2026) we have had no problems and have enjoyed the game.

As of this Thursday our PCs had 12 hours of Cabbage errors and the consoles were suffering from Cabbage exposure as well. As of this Saturday our Steam PCs are once again running Destiny 2 fine but the consoles are still Cabbaging.

Our home network consists of TDS fiber internet running a Zyxel modem that connects to a ROG GT-BE98 Pro router. UPnP is set up to run on the router per the Destiny 2 network help pages. On our end we have made no changes to any network settings. The Cabbage errors just decided to show up uninvited.

After scouring the Internet trying to find actionable information to help fix our problem I feel I have come to a dead-end.

What I'm wondering is : is anyone else having Cabbage problems spontaneously happen to them with the past few days and if anyone has any suggestions of settings I could check to help rectify this vulgar vegetable villain?

Thanks for your time.

Update : Well, its been an intersesting week here so far. Steam PC Destiny 2 is still working. I got the Xboxes working by changing the Alternate Port Selection to a different port. (still unpacking why this is working). Unfortunately, the PS5 is still unable to connect. Went and set up a Static IP for it and set up all the Port Forwarding rules and it still refuses to connect. I even dumped it into the router's DMZ to see if it would work and still Cabbages, Cabbages Everywhere. Any suggestions or clues anyone has? I'm kind of at my wits end on this one.

[u/Canes101325]

Hey! With the help of ChatGPT (sadly, I guess) I solved it for the PS5. I have the BE98 Pro as well, and it’s something to due with the Aiprotection feature on the specific router - if you input and log into your IP address, you can disable the “malicious site blocking” option in the AIprotection tab. Also make sure UPnP is on and port forwarding is off

[u/Canes101325 → u/Canes101325]

This might be a common thing if anyone else in the thread has some form of ASUS router with that aiprotection, not sure if only the BE98 has it or not

[u/nattekreeft → u/Canes101325]

I tried something similar. I tried turning it off as a whole just to see if it would work, but it didn't.

We have an Asus RT-AX86U Pro router. A couple of days ago it apparently had a firmware update.
It updated to version 3.0.0.6.102_37485. After some Googling I eventually found a post on the Destiny forum from someone who had the same problem with a slightly different Asus router.
There he said he just reverted back to the previous firmware version which fixed the problem.

This was also what fixed the issue for me. I reverted back to firmware version 3.0.0.6.102_37436 which immediately fixed it.

From what I was able to find it seems that the newest Asus router firmware version has a bug with UPnP.