Local offline network

[Brhunt]

I am  using my old r6700 to connect to IP security cameras but do not want to connect to internet.  Seems to work OK

BUT .. the nework time and date is wrong (by months!)

Since there is no internet connection, there is no access to an NTP server.

Is thare a manual way to set time and date?

Windows 10

[antinode · Accepted solution]

> Is thare a manual way to set time and date?

   I know of none in the usual management web site.

   One possibility might be to gain shell access to the R6700 using
Telnet, and use the "date" command.  Some router models/firmware
versions have some kind of "debug" page ("debug.htm", or similar) which
allows the user to enable Telnet access.  For ones which lack such a
feature, a Web search for terms like:

      Netgear  Telnet  enable

should find some programs which might help.  (I use the program which I
modified: http://antinode.info/nte/ )

   Another possibility, if your R6700 firmware lets you specify the NTP
server (ADVANCED > Administration > NTP Setting?), would be to run a
time server on some system on your LAN (over which you have better
control).

   I know nothing, but the R6700 might expect to see the NTP server on
its WAN/Internet side, in which case, you'd need to have that time
server system connected there.  An existing computer with a second
Ethernet port might work, or something like a Raspberry Pi (with a real
Ethernet port) could be dedicated to that job.

   How hard are you willing to work to get the date+time right on that
thing?

[antinode · Accepted solution]

> Is thare a manual way to set time and date?

   I know of none in the usual management web site.

   One possibility might be to gain shell access to the R6700 using
Telnet, and use the "date" command.  Some router models/firmware
versions have some kind of "debug" page ("debug.htm", or similar) which
allows the user to enable Telnet access.  For ones which lack such a
feature, a Web search for terms like:

      Netgear  Telnet  enable

should find some programs which might help.  (I use the program which I
modified: http://antinode.info/nte/ )

   Another possibility, if your R6700 firmware lets you specify the NTP
server (ADVANCED > Administration > NTP Setting?), would be to run a
time server on some system on your LAN (over which you have better
control).

   I know nothing, but the R6700 might expect to see the NTP server on
its WAN/Internet side, in which case, you'd need to have that time
server system connected there.  An existing computer with a second
Ethernet port might work, or something like a Raspberry Pi (with a real
Ethernet port) could be dedicated to that job.

   How hard are you willing to work to get the date+time right on that
thing?