KB 177

Some actiontec 1520 (the white model) mysteries revealed

Article:177
Created:2002-08-18 09:14:38
Categories:
  routing

Question or Symptom

Telnet, ping, and seeing the arp table in an actiontec

Resolution

    I had asked the Actiontec folks about the telnet interface for the
    Actiontec, since I could find no documentation on it. They said they do
    not support a telnet interface. We could telnet to the router, we had
    guessed the default login of admin/admin. But commands did not work, and
    the router often froze. After nagging the Actiontec folks long enough,
    they finally coughed up some info about the telnet interface. After
    logging in, you must issue the magic command, "console enable."

    Now the commands seem to work, and the router hasn't crashed yet. Wonder of
    wonders, you can ping with the command, "ip ping [host]". It is a poor
    ping that simply returns one reply, with no stats, but thank god there
    is at least that much. You can also see the ARP table with the command,
    "ip arp". The command "help" will show available commands, and
    "[command] help" will display further options. It looks there is
    actually a fair bit you can do, but there is no reference, sicne
    Actiontec does not officially support it. Feel free to explore. Rus