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XB7 Command Line Interface
I'm running an XB7 in bridge mode because I have complicated network with 60 reserved IP addresses in the 192.168 space. This means my speed has dropped from 1.2 Gbps to 940 Mbs because bridge mode only looks at LAN1 and doesn't support link aggregation or the 2.5 Gbps port.
I would like to operate the XB7 in normal router mode, but to do that conveniently I need command line access to the IP reservation table. This is easy to do on a normal Netgear router, but the Netgear inside the XB7 has a number of customizations that turn off common features. It doesn't respond to telnet at port 23 or ssh at port 22.
Does the XB7 support command line access?
user_bb801b
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3 years ago
So the web interface is likely the only way to config the XB7 that Im aware of.. But then again, im not SSH or Telnet to the gateway to begin with.
Is the issue hitting the gateway from internal or internet IP address? Guessing ports 22,23 blocked on internet side to avoid scans looking for innocent device on the web..
Just my .2 cents
Thanks and good luck.
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BruceW
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3 years ago
The CGM4331COM is made by Technicolor and the TG4482A is made by Arris. It seems unlikely that either one is "Netgear inside". Do you have any evidence that they are?
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madbrain76
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3 years ago
BTW, I am running into the same problems with DHCP on the XB7. The UI in the horrid. It doesn't scale. It's full of bugs. I have 76 "Reserved IP" and many changes I'm making to them no longer take. Changes to existing reservations, or new reservations. I think there is some kind of hard limit in there. And worst of all, there is no way to turn off the DHCP server completely.
I am thinking of trying to use a second DHCP server, maybe on a Raspberry Pi. Not sure if I can make it work, though. Having multiple DHCP servers on the same LAN is fraught with problems. But perhaps I can set the XB7 DHCP range to be a single IP address. And have a single reservation in there, for the Pi itself. The Pi could be configured either to use DHCP, or to use single IP of the XB7 DHCP server range.
Hopefully, any other devices requesting DHCP would not be able to get an IP from the XB7 DHCP server, and these DHCP requests would fall back to the secondary DHCP server running on the Pi. I don't know if I can get this to work or not. But none of it would need to be done if the [Edited: "Language"] router in the XB7 worked in the first place.
It's not going to be fun testing this, sigh.
Edit: it looks like the XB7 requires a DHCP range of at least two IP addresses. A single one won't do. It accepts that, though, even though there are 76 existing "Reserved IP". At least I don't have to delete them one at a time, which would take hours, for the purpose of testing, but this shows how much testing this GUI got.
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