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On 30/5/07 22:21, "Andy Osborne" <andy at oznet.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> However, unless things have changed over the last couple of years, inside
> it's a linux machine, so if you set an admin password you can telnet to
> it and get a command line (note the 'admin' user is 'root' for telnet).

Yup, I did get inside earlier today to poke around, but since it's a
read-only fs there's no simple way to make changes last across reboots -
which is preferable! Thanks for the example though, most handy.

> We replaced it with a Cisco 857 last year so apologies if I've forgotten
> anything in the recipe above.

I was looking at the 800 series... do they do what I want? The interface
looked awfully simplistic.

Oliver.