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Netgear Genie 'Router Login' problem
When I got my Netgear CG3000D cable gateway I changed Remote Management's 'Remote User Name' & 'Remote Password'. Then I discovered Netgear Genie. But now when I try to use Netgear Genie's 'Router Lo...
Hi xxxxxxx,
Have you tried resetting the device back to factory defaults?
Regards,
Dexter
Community Team
Hi, Dexter,
I just restored the factory default as you suggest.
Before I did it, I saved the old setup (as 'GatewaySettings -before restore-.bin'). Then I saved the settings after the restore (as 'GatewaySettings -after restore-.bin'). They are significantly different.
Do you know: Is there a utility for 'reading' (i.e., 'dumping') the contents of the '.bin' files as human readable (Engish) text?
Thanks.
Mark.
Thank you, Dexter, but the link is not applicable. Netgear's 'GatewaySettings.bin' file is not that kind of a '.bin' file. That kind of '.bin' file refers to old 'binary-executable' files that are produced by a compiler, but before they're bound by a linker (after which they become '.exe' files).
The Netgear 'GatewaySettings.bin' file is just a binary data file that contains the router settings. There is no public, published format for such a file. The only folks who would know how to 'read' such a file would be the folks who write the Netgear utilities.
Another way to find the format of the 'GatewaySettings.bin' file is to look at the Netgear utilites header file ('.h' file). It contains the static values used by the linker to bind the Netgear utilities.
Can you send me the '.h' file?
Thank You.