Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Chris wrote:
>
>>> How did you reboot the router, as a matter of interest.
>>> Is there any of doing this from an ethernet-connected computer?
>
>> Well, I think it wasn't the genuine firmware, but dd-wrt. There's a
cronjob menu in the webinterface and you can also edit them by telnet.
>
> Thanks for your response.
> But have you actually done this?
> If so, could you be a bit more explicit, please?
>
> I was just looking at my dd-wrt router's web-page,
> and I see that Remote Access is disabled
> in Administration=>Management.
> Probably that is why I don't seem able to access it with telnet; and
even if I could do, I'm not sure I would know
> how to edit a file with telnet ...
??? You don't edit files with vi?
>
> When I have a little time, I must read up on dd-wrt's documentation.
Also, enable ssh, verify that it works, then disable telnet. And, if
you're not worried about connecting from random locations, but only from
inside your internal network, you can block outside remote access.
dd-wrt's "documentation"? It's as accurate as any other documentation
that's been desultorily, in someone's spare time, updated over the last 10
years, and old and obsolete info not deleted....
mark "take your cmts re emacs to alt.religion.editors"
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