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JeffJeff
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6 years ago

Advanced Question - smarthub MF275 reset or telnet in?

Hi, I'm experiencing a really weird problem. I cannot reset my router it's an MF275. When I log into the router admin panel I can enter my username and password then it starts to load the normal inde...
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Nighthawk
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6 years ago

Telnet itself is completely not secure and I don't know of a single modern device that has it enabled. Too risky. A few more prosumer or commercial level devices may have SSH enabled on them or potentially could have it enabled. I would think it's quite rare to see SSH on a standard home use device.

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    JeffJeff
    Neighbour
    6 years ago

    Thanks for the reply, I also tried to SSH into the router at 192.168.0.1 on port 22, same problem 😞

    Jeff@-MacBook-Air-2 ~ % telnet 192.168.0.1
Trying 192.168.0.1...
telnet: connect to address 192.168.0.1: Connection refused
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host
Jeff@-MacBook-Air-2 ~ % ssh 192.168.0.1
ssh: connect to host 192.168.0.1 port 22: Connection refused
Jeff@-MacBook-Air-2 ~ %
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