Reboot Linksys remotely

[time]

This thread was going to be something along the lines of how much Linksys sucked. Instead, I'm posting a link to a solution!

At some stage in the last few years, Cisco/Linksys decided it would be really cool to remove the option to remotely restart their products. Cause they always work perfectly, I guess.

I had a problem accessing a site remotely, VPN was creating a tunnel but I couldn't do anything through it. I found I could browse to the standalone router okay, so I restarted that. No dice. I restarted my router, but still no go.

That left the Linksys WAG160N - being used solely as a DSL modem - at the remote site. Only problem being the aforesaid lack of any ability to give the POS a kick in the guts (no Telnet, AFAIK).

Google took me to maybe half a dozen sites where posters concluded there was no longer any way to do it. Fortunately, perseverance paid off and I came across this excellent nixCraft page.

http://your-router-ip:xxxx/setup.cgi?todo=reboot

Beautiful. AND it worked, the POS started letting the tunnel traffic through again. :beer:

 

[Mercutio]

Well now I know exactly how I'm going to DDOS residential IPs from now on...

 

[Stereodude]

Yeah, that seems kinda stupid to leave that sort of backdoor open unless I'm missing something.

 

[BingBangBop]

I wonder how hard it would be to setup a loop and send that code to everyone on the Comcast IP network?

To any govt. agency listening -- I'm just wondering out loud. If someone else does this, it is not my fault and I'm not responsible!

 

[time]

I already had a session on the router, and I think it was https: rather than http: ... Interesting thought though.

 

[BingBangBop]

If one can reboot a router remotely with no security, I wonder if there isn't a command to reset a router to default settings and reboot?

 

[Mercutio]

There is security there. It looks like you have to provide a password. But it's still pretty trivial since we all know the defaults.

 

[MaxBurn]

First of all the remote console needs to be enabled right? I don't leave that enabled anywhere.

 

[CougTek]

I use DD-WRT on my Linksys router. That wouldn't work on it. Therefore, you're free to attempt to DDoS me.

 

[LunarMist]

There is security there. It looks like you have to provide a password. But it's still pretty trivial since we all know the defaults.

Don't most people use a long random string for the password?

 

[Chewy509]

Don't most people use a long random string for the password?

I think most people use: 'root', 'admin', '1234' or 'password' for their home router (or whatever the factory default is).

Nice and easy to remember

 

[Mercutio]

I think most people use: 'root', 'admin', '1234' or 'password' for their home router (or whatever the factory default is).

Nice and easy to remember

Plus it's usually printed right on the bottom of the unit!

 

[LunarMist]

I make a label with the password and afix it to the unit. That is in a residential environment of course.

 

[Howell]

http://your-router-ip:xxxx/setup.cgi?todo=reboot

I am annoyed to no end. The newest firmware is in ASP so this doesn't work; and there is still no way to do it through the web interface.