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GromitD90
Feb 11, 2021Aspirant
Telnet Support for WAC124
I am considering purchasing a WAC124/AC2000 for use as an Wireless Access Point but only if I know that I can enable a telnet interface on the device. Can anyone tell me if telnet is enabled by defa...
RaghuHR
Feb 11, 2021NETGEAR Expert
GromitD90
Feb 11, 2021Aspirant
Well I shouldn't really have to justify why I need it to get an answer, but I will share my use case with you anyway. I am currently using 2 Netgear R7000's and an old WNDR3700 as access points. The R7000's are running stock firmware, the WNDR3700 runs DD-WRT firmware. Using standard GUI interfaces I can login to each device and see which wireless clients are connected to each, but I have to examine all 3 to get a complete network picture. So I wrote myself a C# program that monitors my network by polling the 3 access points using telnet to query the AP's using the wl assoclist command and building a table that gives me a holistic network view of connectivity. I can also track mobile clients migrating from one AP to another and the program also sends a text message to my mobile phone if an unknown device associates with one of the AP's. I want to replace the WNDR3700 and am considering a WAC124 but only if I can enable Telnet so my app will continue to function as designed \ Mike
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