Kartik, You can get to the "command prompt" (kinda unix shell) with option number 24 and then 8 (i think). I haven't found any way of getting anything like packet sniffing out of it, however you can enable a syslog server, (again through option 24) then the logging page, however this appears to only log restarts/ criticals / authentication etc, not packet sniffing even when you play with the levels (usual SNMP debug, critical etc.). I doubt that you will find a way of doing it as netgear sell the FR314 - the same box with stateful packet inspection and only a web front end. The FR314 is cool for a real small operation (you need to add licences per ip address and only the latest firmware allows you to exclude things like print servers). And it e-mails the log files to a system admin, allthough the licences can gat a bit pricey. We have just dumped one as the false positives were really getting on my tits, we've moved up to a cisco2600 with ios firewall.
Tip: Have a look at the filters, some of the older versions of the RT314 ship with some wierd access lists (Filters in netgear speak) which block anything useful. The newer ones have a sensible set of access lists, inbound telnet, etc on the wan port, and port 137 on the lan port. You can daisychain them as well, one of our customers has cobbled together a chain of three of them to provide different small lans access to a DSL connection. (they wont listen to good network design rules and buy the correct device!). Hope this helps Regards Mat Pearsons -----Original Message----- From: Kartik Trivedi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 19 February 2002 18:16 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: command execution on router hi guys, A sort of newbie question. Any help will be apreciated. I split my cable modem connection at home between 3 PCS using a Netgear RT314 gateway router. >From the manual, I understand that the router has some amount of RAM (mostly 8MB) Now if i telnet to the router, all i get is a menu with 10 options. I can choose any of them & they do the normal stuff like port forwarding, etc. Is their a way to get the prompt on the router. I mean what i may wanna try is to maybe install a sniffer or something like that on the router. In other words, can i execute any executable file on the router? Thanks in advance kartik
