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Saving Attached Device Edits
Are attached device table edits saved into the router’s backup .cfg file?
If so, are these edits restored upon a .cfg restore operation?
Is there anyway to transfer/copy/send attached device table edits from one Netgear router to other Netgear router?
Thanks!
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I believe only saved if a IP address reservation is configured for devices.
Attached devices is a transitory status as that status checks to see if the device is online and connected. If the device disconnects then the status changes and the device will not appear in the attached devices list. Nothing to save here.
One could try saving a back up config from the model router and try restoring to same model router. Won't work between different model routers.
Sounds about right.
But if a device (with an edited attached devices table entry) disconnects and disappears from the attached devices table for a while, once that device reconnects that device will reappear in the attached devices table AND the previous edits (from before the disconnect) will reappear in the attached devices table.
AND, if I unplug and/or reboot the router those attached devices edits reappear in the table.
So it seems like those edits
MAC address =
Device Model
Device Name
Device Type
are saved somewhere.
Just hoping to serialize those changes for posterity and possible upload into a new router (since those edit take time to perform properly).
Thanks again.
Would this new router be used in same location with same devices or different location?
The table is saved dynamically in a temp location on the routers memory and accessed by the web page when a user selects on Connected Devices. Gives only real time connected devices. However not saved in the backup config file. Only IP address reservations are saved if those are configured.
Saving them in the backup isn't necessary since the transitory nature of devices. What seen on the connected devices table is only for what is currently connected. Once a device disconnects, it goes away from the table.
Yes, I'm talking about multiple routers on the same home network (192.168.1.0) (255.255.255.0). One router is actually used as a router providing DHCP, address reservations and internet access. And the other routers used as Access Points both inside and outside the home, with ethernet run to each.
See, when a device connects to a router, about the only consistently correct data the device provides to the router is the device's MAC address. Other data, like device type, device manufacture model name and device name are rarely correct. Consequently, in a larger network with >100 connected devices, the attached devices table is real mess. And it takes quite a bit of work to track down the actual, correct information for each connected device and update the attached devices table. So once the attached devices table looks good, it would be great to preserve it somehow: serialize the data to a file, pass the data to another router on the network (as a backup), just in case something bad (power surge) takes out the main router. The idea is to more easily switch over to another router (already on the network configured as an AP) and reconfigure that router from an AP back to a router. Maybe what I'm looking for is more of a "business/commercial" router rather than a "home/consumer" router? Or maybe the best that can be done with current technology is to simply screen-shot the multiple pages of the attached devices table and save them into a Word file? Thanks again.
For AP mode would not really matter, still connected table is transitory and all depends on where devices get connected at that time. Changes when devices come and go.
But you can give it a try and see how it does for you.
If these home class routers are being used in a business then ya, you'll not see same features as what maybe in business class systems. If for home then, it is what it is and what you see is what you get.
