Netgear Router

[psp83]

Hi,

I have a Netgear DG834PN router and i'm just wondering if its possible to change the look off its pages? What i want to do is when i block a website, its comes up with a page saying about the netgear router has blocked the site.. I want to make this more friendly if its possible.

Also, anyone know how i can find out the path mode (see if interleaving is enabled) on my router?

Regards
Paul

[Rik]

Hi Paul

Don't think you can do too much with the appearance, but to check interleaving, login to the router with the following:

http://192.168.0.1/setup.cgi?todo=debug

It will respond debug enable.

Then go to Start > Run > CMD <enter>

In the resulting window, type 'telnet 192.168.0.1' (without the quotes) and at the command prompt type:

cat /proc/avalanche/avsar_modem_stats.

Look to see where the errors are being reported, from memory, fast path or interleaved.

Note that there is some security weakness introduced by putting the router into debug mode, so I'd recommend re-booting it after checking.

[Lance]

To change the look of the pages you could see if the firmware code is available to download under the gpl. You will also need the programs to compile the firmware once you are down, but these may be differcult to find.

Anyways, once you have it downloaded, find the page you want to change, update it to what you want and then recompile and update the router with it.

I don't know if this is possible with netgears, but it certainly is with my Linksys.

Lance

[psp83]

I do think you can flash netgear routers with 3rd party firmware (eg, your own edited one). I have looked around on google and all the questions that get asked about the blocked page, theres no response to how to edit them 

I've also looked for programs that decompile/recompiles and can't find any good ones that are worth the money, so if anybody knows a program that can do this, please let me know.

[AvengerUK]

"I do think you can flash netgear routers with 3rd party firmware"

I think its pritty unlikely, as netgear are, netgear! - Dont use generic chipsets, use their own - sort of thing.

[Lance]

With regards to third party I think he means downloading the netgear code, making a few changes, compiling and uploading. This way it is still essentially Netgear's firmware and not as if you are building your own from scratch!

You can download the fireware in uncompiled format for netgears from here . I'm sure if you were to google, you would be able to find a compiler to create the actual firmware.