Originally Posted by
408Mike
Well the answer is-----I basically forgot the admin password. I know I can reset it, but I forgot how and quite frankly find the other stuff i am tinkering with a bit interesting. Well packet logging certainly isn't' but a lot of the rest is. Come to think of it, configuring firewalls and trying to look at chunks of output from a sniffer just bores me to tears.
No worries, now that I learned the proper application of tcpdump with outputs of netstat -a, lsof -i, ps auxx, rwsnoop, and a few others I have a nice handle on the comings and goings of just about anything and everything on my system. And Now I am finally almost happy. ALMOST. I am attempting to figure out how to get the fuck into my HPA on this laptop (for challenge and curiosity mostly, paranoia is persistent root kits partially) so that's the direction I have gone in.
Yeah, I'm all for playing around and experimenting. That's how you learn obv.
However, I wouldn't be running that all of the time. It's basically showing you what your routers firmware will (if it's a decent one, I imagine it is) but using more resources to do so. Plus, you really should know your password for your router anyway. A reset is usually done by inputting the serial number on the router on the firmware in a "forgot password" type deal, or by actually pressing the factory reset button on the router itself. It takes 5 minutes and one day when someone does try to piss all over your network, you'll be glad you did.
Like I said, I imagine your router wil prob be a decent one - if the firmware is anything like mine, you will be able to see every single device that has connected to your network (I mean really detailed shit), change wi-fi output signal strengh for whichever computer/device is connected to network, open/close certain ports for your network - pretty much everything you could need. I'm sure if you reset your password and had a fuck around for a little while, you would rely on 3rd party applications less and have much more of an idea if anything suspect is going on.
All good though, glad you are learning to fix these things yourself.