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How to unbrick the Nighthawk R7000 using OS X and TFTP
Hi,
After spending a night on unbricking my R7000 and how I struggled to work with all the manuals out there but none of them actually worked. I thought I should share what actually worked for ...
HOLY COW IT WORKED!!!
nmrpflash worked!!! Switching to a Static IP address and turning my Wifi off did the trick!!
Also, recommend using -vvv to double check when it works. Took me two tries to nail the timing because the router has to finish restarting for the packet transfer to begin before the command times out.
This post was helpful in my quest, since like you mentioned, the TFTP commands listed in all the Windows unbricking guides don't work in macOS Terminal.
For me the method still does not work, because in Step 3, ping returns mostly
Request timeout for icmp_seq xx
without the
ttl=100
Very nice writeup. Should help the MAC only folks out there. I have both in my case and have used both to recover a router. The one Netgear writeup for recovery using tftp suggests using a tftp client that you download. It was created in 2012 and when you download and try to install you get a message that it will not work with the current OS. ;)
Your method does not make use of that. MAC's in my exerience are not as user friendly when trying to recover a router, especially if having to go the serial connection route. With windows I do not have to drop to a terminal window, but do with MAC.