Enabling telnet in the RAX75?

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Anyone know how to enable telnet on the RAX75?&nbsp; &nbsp;The telnetable.bin trick as well as [ip]/debug.html does not work...&nbsp;&nbsp;Thanks ahead of time!

antinode · Answer

&gt; Anyone know how to enable telnet on the RAX75? [...]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Not I.&nbsp; Someone who has touched one might have more/betterinformation.&nbsp;&gt; [...] The telnetable.bin trick [...] does not work...&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Netgear appears to have been removing that (undocumented,unsupported) feature from various models in recent times.&nbsp; Whetherthat's intentional or just another blunder is not obvious.&nbsp; See, forexample:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; https://community.netgear.com/t5/x/x/m-p/1786837&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It's also possible to provide bad parameters to a telnet-enableprogram (bad "admin" credentials, bad/wrong MAC address, ...).

sfloess · Answer

Thanks for the reply!&nbsp;Yeah, I saw that article as well as a few others.&nbsp; My creds, mac address and ip are correct for telnetenable.bin.&nbsp; If tney are going to stop supporting it, thejr firmware is useless to me.&nbsp; &nbsp;I'm wanting to run dnsmasq on it more than anything.&nbsp;I alsoopened a case - suppose I'll have to wait and hope :)

antinode · Answer

&gt; [...] My creds, mac address and ip are correct for telnetenable.bin.&gt; [...]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Which of its MAC addresses did you specify?&nbsp;&gt; [...] If tney are going to stop supporting it, thejr firmware is&gt; useless to me.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; When did they _start_ "supporting it"?&nbsp;&gt; I alsoopened a case - [...]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Please report any interesting results.

sfloess · Answer

&gt;&nbsp;Which of its MAC addresses did you specify?&nbsp;I tried the following mac addresses:- the mac address as denoted on the router itself (underneath)- hit the router with nmap:&nbsp; that provided an addtional mac address- the internet mac address&nbsp;I also tried using colons and no colons in the mac addresses when issuing&nbsp;telnetenable.bin&nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;When did they _start_ "supporting it"?&nbsp;I am not suggesting it was ever supported.&nbsp; More so, I have two R9000s that do have this capability (I've since moved those over to DD-WRT).&nbsp; My point is, I am somewhat hobbled using their stock firmware.&nbsp; The AX75 is not supported on the DD-WRT site (no mention in the router database...nor do I see it under the beta downloads at&nbsp;ftp.dd-wrt.com/betas/2020)...&nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;Please report any interesting results.&nbsp;Most definitely!&nbsp; I'm working around the firmware via my R9000s (as in putting my required functionality on them).&nbsp; &nbsp;Still rather annoying...&nbsp;I must confess I do use my routers like computers and have a bunch of wireless client bridges around my home (long story).&nbsp; Having the ability to run chroot'd debian and/or entware is very nice...&nbsp;&nbsp;

antinode · Answer

&gt; I tried the following mac addresses:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The one you want is the LAN MAC address (not WAN/Internet):ADVANCED &gt; ADVANCED Home : Router Information : LAN Port : MAC Address&nbsp;&gt; I also tried using colons and no colons in the mac addresses when&gt; issuing telnetenable.bin&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; If you want to keep the colons, you can use the program which Imodified: http://antinode.info/nte/&nbsp; So far as I know, others are toolame to allow them.&nbsp;&gt; I am not suggesting it was ever supported. [...]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; "stop supporting it" certainly suggested that to me. &nbsp; Hard to stopsomething which was never started.&nbsp;&gt; [...] Having the ability to run chroot'd debian and/or entware is very&gt; nice...&nbsp;&nbsp; I suspect that Netgear dislikes the resulting support problems.Releasing firmware with fewer defects/shortcomings would help, butthat's more work.

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Enabling telnet in the RAX75?

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