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Well the last Post by Manav, forces me to publish this article.

How to Access a router and what can you do after it ?

I’ve been doing this from past few months, and I when Manav said that it is a global problem, I feel to appreciate him for that.

Okei, so here we go,

There are actually two methods

1. Manual (I love this)
2. Remote (I still love this)

But before just illustrating the trick, I’d like to introduce some thing to you all. A router is a device that connects with the Lan Card/Ethernet or with the USB port of your computer, it is a gateway of your computer to the outside world.

It is assumed that with the introduction of router, direct access to your computer, which was possible in the Dial UP reign, is now abolished, but in this world nothing is safe, so we’ll see.

Manual Method

The Router and the computer make a small local Area Network.

There are different IP addresses for different devices/nodes in the LAN, normally the range starts from 192.168.1.1, you can check out your node’s IP, by viewing the properties of the Network Connection (if its connected).

Now, normally the router or the server (if in a larger network ), has the local IP 192.18.1.1. You can always access the configuration page, by visiting the local IP 192.168.1.1 , type this IP address on any web browser.

This will lead you to the configuration page, where it will ask you for the user name and password, see the snapshot

Now, here lies the biggest flaw of the global aspect, try this useername : admin, password :: admin, try this it will workin 95% cases, why ?, because even the IT gurus are n00bs enough for never looking in this problem, Its a global situation, from Japan to Pakistan.

So here you are in the Configuration page , now even if the password is not admin, and you’ve physical access to the router, just reset it, all it need is a pin

In the Remote Method, all you need to know is the IP of the router, no local IP won’t get you to anybody’s router, so you need to know the IP when he is connected, there are so many methods, I’ll have a separate post for that.

Now the Question lies, what Can I do for fun ?

The most obvious thing that you can do is “trouble him/her”, how ?, well just navigate through the configuration pages, to find something like “Internet Connection “, It list the connections, see the snapshot

Now this is your work, out of the given list only one will be active, which one?, most probably the top one, edit it, change the VPI and VCI value, hola, you’re done, this trick will atleast trouble him for 2-3 days. And beside you can change many other things, that I leave on you !

In certain Router, it is even possible to get the username of the Internet Connection and the password of the connection in hidden form, but everybody knows that the password is there, and since you’ve access to the PHP page you can get the damn password out,for example see this snap

What else can I do ?, well I’ven’t tried it but lets see, the router and the computer interacts by using a port, which port ? , we don’t know, it can be any of those 65000 ports, so running a port scanner ( you’ll find many ) is an advisable thing, go ahead and let me know !

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Well this is the first post under the Freelancer categorie.

People ask what is freelancing articles, or why should one need that ?

well a simple word to answer the questions are blogs, most blogs are

freelancers, the authors write in their own manner, and share their

personal views and life.

But how is freelancing articles related to a site like this ?

Well yes, I’ve been feeling a bit need for articles which corresponde

how “geeks see this world “, so here you’ll atleast find some sound articles.

Now, the article title says “Hacked the mouse”

well, sorry to those who think of that Hacking terminology ,

this is not that thing, so if you were interested in that, oops wrong door.

ha ha,

I won’t declare my definition of Hacking, its quiet different from what others think, and even a small tweak to me seems like HAcking, cause its unauthorizes , lol ,

So, here goes the story,

Well from past fortnight I was having a serious issue with the computer’s mouse, the right click button was malfunctioning, now I don’t like working with mouse on the Linux Machine, cause I’m there for shell, but woopie, here I go with Windows, and see, I can’t live without a right click, the right click button on the Keyboards woks fine on the explorer, but what in case of Browsers ?

This was serious, cause I use windows primarily for surfing only, well I went to a hardware shop to get my mouse work, he suggested me to buy another one for price as small as 150 bucks, ( less than 4$), but to tell the truth, my Computer mouse was a logitech made, and I wasn’t in any mood to part with it, It is standard and genuine, Chinese models can never take its place. Now I asked some other guys, they told me about the accessibility option, now obviously I know about that, but who in the world uses that ? Its a damn slow thing to use keyboard instead of a mouse.

The biggest problem was the I can’t use tabbing , cause without right click,you can’t go for options like “open in new tab ” , and that was the biggest pain.

Who in this world, opens every page in the same windows? guess, its not me .

So, finally what I did was that I removed the upper cover of the mouse, and then started using the right click, the problem was obviously in the upper cover, cause the damn small push buttons on the chip were working.

It was a panic to use the mouse like that, but when it works, you know, how good you feel .

Two days back (August 3 2008), I was cleaning the mess of compact disks on my table, and randomly I found the multimedia drivers of Keyboard and mouse.

I was using the Media Center Edition of Windows XP (Its genuine), so I installed the drivers for mouse, and after that, woopie !. I can always open a hyperlink in new tab, by just pushing the hyperlink with the third button ( people also call it Z button or roller button ).

Well It wasn;t any work from my side, but still it was a nice tweak, and currently, when I’m writing this article, I am using that tweak to check my messages ” in a new tab ” lol.

Hoping that some people can write their own such weird experiences in daily life,

Well My next article will be a taunts on the n00b driven world, so stay up to date, and remember to tune up every tuesday, for a brand new Freelancing article from me

Regards to all,

Ankit Tiwari aka dotCracker

www.dotcracker.co.cc

prof.ankit@gmail.com