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Extract config info to plain text
I'm looking for a way to extract a plain-text/human readable listing of the configuration information for my router. I can do the "backup" to send the configuration to a .cfg file, but that file is in some binary and/or encrypted form, so is not much use. In particular I would like to export the reserved addresses (the part that takes the most time to do every time I have to do a hard-reset). Unfortunately can't use these to do a command-line reconfiguration, but at least I could have a clean file to list what I have to manually re-do.
netwrks wrote:Copy / paste the important config info, into a document / spreadsheet..
Yeah, well that's exceedingly crude, and considering the number of screens that would entail to get a FULL listing of the router's configuration, exceedingly inefficient. DD-WRT could at least give plain-text information from a SSH or telnet shell. I really think I'd be better off finding an open-source formware to flash on it with halfway-decent administration capability. (or save up enough to eventually buy a decent-model Linksys or Buffalo, and turn this Netgear into nothing more than an access point).
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Copy / paste the important config info, into a document / spreadsheet..
netwrks wrote:Copy / paste the important config info, into a document / spreadsheet..
Yeah, well that's exceedingly crude, and considering the number of screens that would entail to get a FULL listing of the router's configuration, exceedingly inefficient. DD-WRT could at least give plain-text information from a SSH or telnet shell. I really think I'd be better off finding an open-source formware to flash on it with halfway-decent administration capability. (or save up enough to eventually buy a decent-model Linksys or Buffalo, and turn this Netgear into nothing more than an access point).
jelabarre59 wrote:
netwrks wrote:Copy / paste the important config info, into a document / spreadsheet..
Yeah, well that's exceedingly crude, and considering the number of screens that would entail to get a FULL listing of the router's configuration, exceedingly inefficient. DD-WRT could at least give plain-text information from a SSH or telnet shell. I really think I'd be better off finding an open-source formware to flash on it with halfway-decent administration capability. (or save up enough to eventually buy a decent-model Linksys or Buffalo, and turn this Netgear into nothing more than an access point).
Sounds like a plan!
