On 3/16/25 12:45, Martin McCormick wrote:
I just had a heck of a scare at our house when our ISP had some sort of day-long melt-down that bricked our 2013-vintage Netgear router. The router is actually fine and came right back up as soon as the ISP stopped feeding it poison and started working properly again but I think it is time to retire this router and go with a Linux or FreeBSD-based router that lives on plain ASCII configuration files. Our present router is a NETGEAR Router WNDR3400v2 and probably might make a good access point as the hardware seems to be okay but I am sick and tired of dealing with the web interface for administering the router. Web GUIS are not efficient for control as one must do everything the GUI way rather than what I call the easy way which is, Edit the files in question. Give the system a n update command and you're good to go. For 25 years, I ran the DHCP and DNS boxes at a university before retirement so I know what I need to do. The Netgear router has never been very blind-friendly because every browser I have tried on it has some sort of issue. Somewhere along the way, I was finally able to change the password because it comes with a default password that one should always change unless you want to let all your neighbors share your WiFi.
I always buy a router that is OpenWrt capable for that reason, the one you have looks to be capable! ;^)
I could reset the router to gain access to it again but that would clear out the dedicated IP address tables I created over time. Those tables are visible as I look at the "attached devices" tables so if I can capture those to a file or files, I can make the ASCII tables in to the sort of files that the ISC dhcp server uses which are ordinary text files.
You could use `rping` utility to discover what IP and associated MAC are used on your network.
Thanks for any ideas on capturing the tables to a text file.
If you look online, the wndr3400 looks to be telnet capable with a specific packet. As long as the TTL for DHCP leases is long enough, you should be able to change your router without losing the reserved leases. -- John Doe To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to blinux-list+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxx.