On 19 October 2010 18:18, Hakan Koseoglu <ha...@koseoglu.org> wrote: > On 19/10/10 16:54, Cornelius Mostert wrote: > > The scenario is as follow: > > 1. You have permission to work as Admin on a Lan > > 2. You do NOT have any documentation from the previous Admin > > 3. You find a router / WiFi Router that is in use and therefore you can > > NOT reset it > > 4. This router is a "home" / consumer router like Netgear, Linksys, etc. > > So not an enterprise router > > 5. You need to brows to the routers config web page to make some changes > > (you assume the default admin and password for the router) BUT you do > > NOT know the IP address > > 6. You know the router is NOT a DHCP server > > > > Now the question is HOW do you find the IP address of the router ??? > > If it is the router providing the access outside, netstat -nr will show > you the route, hence the IP address of the router. > If you know which servers/clients are using it as a gateway, run those > commands from there. > > But what then, what will knowing the IP address provide to you, I'm not > sure. > > If the previous admin has walked away with all of the information, I'd > treat that router as compromised and take it off the net ASAP and > replace it with a known configuration - damn the users, just let them > know about the outage. > > Nmap will attempt to show you any IP addresses on the network with a > reasonable distinction of if the device is Netgear, Cisco etc. > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
+1 for netstat -nr. Also look for a factory reset button on the router, but make sure you know the settings first! Steve
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