update Linksys via telnet

lawman · 11-25-2003, 04:49 PM

Hi all,
I hope this is posted to the correct forum, if not I apologize and will repost. I am looking for a little direction or any advice. I want to remote admin my linksys router via a telnet/ssh session. I know I could enable remote administration on the router, but that is really not a viable solution, plus don't learn much that way.

thanks in advance

carstenson · 11-26-2003, 08:55 AM

Linksys routers that I have worked with don't have telnet or ssh capabilities. Web browser is the only way to config.

If you really wanted to learn, you could telnet to port 80 and talk in http. Just kiddin'.

lawman · 11-26-2003, 10:20 AM

Well, what I thinking about was programs like ddlclient or ipcheck do access the router albeit to only read a page. There should be a way to make a POST to the router. It must have some webserver running or it couldn't accept posts from the web interface nor serve up interface pages.

carstenson · 11-26-2003, 11:49 AM

Yes, it should have at least a small web server. I am not familiar with the programs that you mention. Certainly if you new how to talk http/cgi, you could send commands to the router. This isn't just a simple "telnet", though.

lawman · 11-26-2003, 11:56 AM

I agree, not simple telnet. What I would like to do is to open a telnet session and launch a command line program that either through interaction or -switches would make the POST to the router. I can do this in C#, POSTing to another webserver from a windows app, but know nothing about perl or Linux scripting that would accomplish the same thing. That's what I need help with

carstenson · 11-26-2003, 12:30 PM

Thanks for not arresting me, lawman. Sounds like this would be better posted in a perl newsgroup. Linux scripting can do a lot, but I don't know how to open a tcp/ip socket directly from the shell.

lawman · 12-01-2003, 08:14 AM

Thanks carstenson, I'll try it over there