Reboot Linksys remotely

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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.

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

Beautiful. AND it worked, the POS started letting the tunnel traffic through again. :beer:
 
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!
 
I already had a session on the router, and I think it was https: rather than http: ... Interesting thought though.
 
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?
 
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.
 
First of all the remote console needs to be enabled right? I don't leave that enabled anywhere.
 
Mercutio said:
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.
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Don't most people use a long random string for the password?
 
I make a label with the password and afix it to the unit. That is in a residential environment of course.
 
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