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AlphaIOmega
Aspirant
Mar 12, 2020

Hard reset on Netgear R8000

So my R7000 died last night. Press F to pay respects. I went out to a second hand store and found an X6 R8000 router, but the last user changed the admin password, and Im locked out of changing an...
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AlphaIOmega
Aspirant
Mar 12, 2020

I have tried the 30/30/30 method, and TFTP is not possible as the router does not get assigned an IP address :(

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plemans
Guru - Experienced User
Mar 12, 2020
AlphaIOmega wrote:

I have tried the 30/30/30 method, and TFTP is not possible as the router does not get assigned an IP address :(

The router doesn't get "assigned" an ip address. the router assigns the address. So if you read through the tftp process, you manually assign an address to your computer. Did you try it?