Netgear CLI

[#1]

Alas, I think your last sentence sums up the situation... it seems that commands such as cat and ls literally don't exist. I've tried upper- and lower-case, doing 'cat' on them to see if they show any script, using them with 'sudo' to see if it's the permissions, but nothing works - I always get either 'not found' or 'no such file or directory'. That seems rather bizarre to me, because the CLI is definitely supposed to be a customer-facing feature, as telnet is listed as one of the remote access methods one can enable in the modem's webpage GUI. But it really does seem as though the standard linux commands are non-existent in the router's firmware, so I think we'll have to give up on the idea. Thanks for all the help though alanb - you definitely had a load of ideas I wouldn't have thought of!

[#2]

I'm a tad disappointed that my old FR328 doesn't have this feature, so that I can play this game too.
But before you give up completely, have a read of this ...
http://bbs.adslguide.org.uk/showthreaded.php?Cat=0&Board=dslrouter&Number=3412081&page=1&view=collap...

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I typed adsl which brings up another list and in there is command .. adsl info --stats which brings up a whole bunch of info. Netgear DM111 ADSL2+ Modem Software Version: 3.28r Login name: admin Password: > help ? help logout reboot adsl atm brctl cat df dumpcfg echo ifconfig kill arp defaultgateway dhcpserver dns lan passwd ppp remoteaccess localaccess restoredefault route save swversion wan ping ps pwd sysinfo tftp > adsl Usage: adsl start [--up] [--mod <a|d|l|t|2|p|e|m>] [--lpair <(i)nner|(o)uter>] [--trellis <on|off>] [--snr <snrQ4>] [--bitswap <on|off>] [--sra <on| off>] adsl stop adsl connection [--up] [--down] [--loopback] [--reverb] [--medley] [--noretrain] [--L3] [--diagmode] [--L0] [--tones <xmtStart xmtNum xmtMap rcvStart rcvNum rcvMap>] adsl configure [--mod <a|d|l|t|2|p|e|m>] [--lpair <(i)nner|(o)uter>] [--trellis <on|off>] [--snr <snrQ4>] [--bitswap <on|off>] [--sra <on| off>] adsl bert [--start <#seconds>] [--stop] [--show] adsl info [--state] [--show] [--stats] [--SNR] [--QLN] [--Hlog] [--Hlin] [--HlinS] [--Bits] [--linediag] [--reset] adsl adslstatus adsl --version adsl --help > adsl info --stats adsl: ADSL driver and PHY status Status: Showtime Channel: FAST, Upstream rate = 762 Kbps, Downstream rate = 239 0 Kbps Link Power State: L0 Mode: ADSL2+ Channel: Fast Trellis: ON Line Status: No Defect Training Status: Showtime Down Up SNR (dB): 16.9 5.5 Attn(dB): 57.5 32.4 Pwr(dBm): 17.1 12.4 Max(Kbps): 3336 19997 Rate (Kbps): 2390 762 G.dmt framing K: 143(0) 32 R: 12 16 S: 1 2 😧 16 8 ADSL2 framing MSGc: 11 24 B: 142 31 M: 1 2 T: 2 4 R: 12 16 S: 1.9076 2.6666 L: 650 240 😧 16 8 Counters SF: 653804 653802 SFErr: 122 7107 RS: 22229370 22229268 RSCorr: 2766 5755700 RSUnCorr: 1265 0 HEC: 104 3539 OCD: 0 0 LCD: 0 0 Total Cells: 59765530 2658710477 Data Cells: 543437 65119541 Drop Cells: 0 Bit Errors: 0 190383 LOF: 20 0 LOS: 11 0 LOL: 0 0 LPR: 0 0 ES: 13886 2439 SES: 2109 78 UAS: 74 1440 Total time = 1 days 5 hours 50 sec SF = 16445455 CRC = 138000 LOS = 11 LOF = 20 ES = 13886 Latest 1 day time = 5 hours 50 sec SF = 1112561 CRC = 1368 LOS = 1 LOF = 5 ES = 256 Latest 15 minutes time = 50 sec SF = 3092 CRC = 0 LOS = 0 LOF = 0 ES = 0 Previous 15 minutes time = 15 min 0 sec SF = 55484 CRC = 7 LOS = 0 LOF = 0 ES = 5 Previous 1 day time = 24 hours 0 sec SF = 5340251 CRC = 49447 LOS = 7 LOF = 0 ES = 8049 15 minutes interval [-30 min to -15 min] time = 15 min 0 sec SF = 55484 CRC = 11 LOS = 0 LOF = 0 ES = 10 15 minutes interval [-45 min to -30 min] time = 15 min 0 sec SF = 55484 CRC = 12 LOS = 0 LOF = 0 ES = 8 15 minutes interval [-60 min to -45 min] time = 15 min 0 sec SF = 55545 CRC = 16 LOS = 0 LOF = 0 ES = 11 >

[#3]

And if you really want to get your hands dirty, have a look at this ...
http://www.castalie.org/projects/DM111P.html
Incidentally this link confirms that it has a Busybox shell, so perhaps a bit of googling on that might move you forward.

[#4]

Hmm... I'd seen both of those links already (the TBB one was my first point of reference), but I must admit that I didn't originally read the second one too closely as it all seemed a bit beyond me... however, perhaps it's worth giving a second go, and you say, the confirmation that it's BusyBox could provide a few leads. Thanks again, and I'll report back if I get anywhere useful.