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RBR850 debug screen No Telnet Option
Hello All, I have a Orbi RBR850 that works great however, I need to seperate out the 2.5 & 5 bands and name them different so some of my older devices will connect to 2.5 & not time out trying to con...
I found that “downgrading” to the oldest firmware on the support page allowed me to enable telnet. Access was still intact after re-upgrading to the latest firmware. Hope that helps.
telnet can be enabled on current v6 FW as well using the telnetenabler from the git repo that out on the net.
Modernz wrote:
I found that “downgrading” to the oldest firmware on the support page allowed me to enable telnet. Access was still intact after re-upgrading to the latest firmware. Hope that helps.
when do you get the mac address for the lan port from?
does this mean I need to be connected to the router via ethernet rather than wifi to run the script?
From the sticker under the RBR. Probably either connection will work.
parisv wrote:when do you get the mac address for the lan port from?
The MAC address for the LAN port is also displayed on orbilogin.com / Advanced tab, under Router Information. The MAC address for the upstream internet connection is under Internet Port.
ok I've tried the command from cmd in admin mode exactly the way the readme says it should run and telnet is still not working.
is it possible to get an output of the python script to see if it's actually working?
