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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 connect to the 5 since they share the ssid name
I came across a 192.168.1.1/debug.htm login to enable telnet so I can command line the script to fix this, however the telnet check box doesnt exist on that page. There is only debugging options and log scanning options. Does anyone know how I can turn on telnet services on this unit? Or is there a different page with the new firmware of these devices? Its currently on a 3.15.2 I believe.
Thanks so much
AP
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Please post about this over in the Orbi AX Forum:
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi-AX/bd-p/en-home-orbi-ax
Thank you.
AP4120 wrote: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 connect to the 5 since they share the ssid name
I came across a 192.168.1.1/debug.htm login to enable telnet so I can command line the script to fix this, however the telnet check box doesnt exist on that page. There is only debugging options and log scanning options. Does anyone know how I can turn on telnet services on this unit? Or is there a different page with the new firmware of these devices? Its currently on a 3.15.2 I believe.
Thanks so muchAP
AP4120 wrote:Hello All, I have a Orbi RBR850 that works great however,
...Does anyone know how I can turn on telnet services on this unit? Or is there a different page with the new firmware of these devices? Its currently on a 3.15.2 I believe.
My Orbi AX is running the latest V3.2.15.25_1.3.15 firmware. As you say, the Enable Telnet checkbox option no longer exists on the /debug.htm page. I previously turned on Telnet when my Orbi was running an older firmware. I can confirm that telnet still works with my Orbi even though the checkbox no longer appears on that debug page.
Therefore you could probably downgrade to an earlier firmware, enable telnet, and then upgrade back to the current firmware.
Mikey94025 wrote:
My Orbi AX is running the latest V3.2.15.25_1.3.15 firmware. As you say, the Enable Telnet checkbox option no longer exists on the /debug.htm page. I previously turned on Telnet when my Orbi was running an older firmware. I can confirm that telnet still works with my Orbi even though the checkbox no longer appears on that debug page.That seems almost "too good to be true." On my RBR50, enabling telnet does not survive a reboot, much less a firmware change. And, if I go too long between connecting with telnet, the option no longer works even though the check box says it should.
Even if that was true, any factory reset would probably disable telnet. NG maybe stopping the behind the scenes tweekers that are afforded on Orbi AC.
Try https://github.com/insanid/netgear-telenetenable
This worked for me on a RBR750.
The debug.htm page on that one has JavaScript that disables the "enable telnet" button.
Presumably, if you curled it it would still work.
Very bizarre, but insanid's script still worked for me.
- 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?
I would like to confirm with you, the oldest version you mentioned is 3.1.5.23?
Also would you please list out the procedure of downgrading the firmware?
such as, downgrade RBR/RBS first?
Many thanks.
If you downgrade, downgrade the RBS first then RBR lastly. Same FW update proceedures for manually updating FW on Orbi.
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