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Remote Router Administration?
bduncan asks: "I'm wondering if the Slashdot community knows of bandwidth and remote admin friendly routers, accessible using either a telnet port or at least lynx (both from the inside network of course). I remotely admin a number of installations using Linux systems to do firewalling, email etc. and they all have dialup facilities in case the router misbehaves for some reason. This used to be easy, as the routers would normally provide a telnet port and/or a low bandwidth HTTP facility for setup, resetting etc.Unfortunately, the last installation using a major brand router was across the pond (in the UK) and provides only an HTTP interface, but uses high-bandwidth flash on top of this! Now, instead of just dialing in and using telnet or lynx to get to the router, I'm forced to set up a PPP connection into the Linux machine and then soak up most of the bandwidth with all kinds of useless Flash animation, just to make some changes on the router. Typing into the Flash forms can take many minutes to be echoed back and executed. Tunneling through to the Linux machine using SSH is an option, but of course not until the router is set up properly. Does anyone still make a low-bandwidth remote admin friendly DSL router for use in the UK (or anywhere else for that matter)?"
Try zyxel. They're cheap and good.
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I can confirm this - my DLink DSL-504 ADSL router has an annoying flash animation on the login screen, it's a nightmare through low-bandwidth VNC connections. Only the later firmware updates though.
Roll your own box with Freesco. The base install has telnet and a web control panel but you can install the SSH package and be happy.
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That's not Flash, that's Java. Particularly of note is the status bar of the pop-up window that says "Warning: Applet window"
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My Netgear WGR614 802.llg router can be controlled via HTTP. What I love more about it is that it can update its own ip on DynDns.org so I don't have to keep remembering the IP address and just use this free service to create my own domain name. I even using remote connect to my home PC from work.