Hacking a wireless router?

According to the traffic log, your router is indeed giving itself the proper IP address (192.168.2.1). I'm not familiar with the STP and IGMP protocols, but I have seen such multicast messages get emitted from others routers before. It's normal. It is no doubt attempting to discover which other routers might be connected to it. So far, the router appears to be working exactly as expected.

What is unclear is what you computer is doing (or not doing). You said you were going to post your routing table. Where is that? Also, could you begin an Ethereal capture and try pinging the router and accessing [ http://192.168.2.1/ ] with a web browser? If your routing table is correctly configured, at the very least, we'll see an ARP request being broadcasted from your network card, which should get a reply back from the router. Having this capture could be very helpful.

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 23:05:30 +1300, Jasen Betts wroth:

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That doesn't seem to work from a "command prompt" window on my XP box. It was the first thing I tried. Ctrl-C on the text and Ctrl-V where I wanted it to go. What got pasted was the last thing I copied from a "normal" windows window and not from the DOS window.

Jim

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 23:02:29 +1300, Jasen Betts wroth:

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I've tried all those suggestions with no luck. The router has its own firewall built in. Perhaps that's what's foiling all my hacking attempts.

Jim

On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 23:02:55 -0700, "Howard Henry Schlunder" wroth:

OK. I put it up on alt.binaries.schematics.electronics

Jim

It sounds that way. you'll need TCP/IP atleast. if your system is set to use DHCP to configure the card the router may work with that otherwise set your interface statically to something like address 192.168.2.2 netmask 255.255.255.0

Bye. Jasen

command command-opions > filename

I just use the mouse to select the text, then copy and paste it.

Bye. Jasen

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 07:36:09 -0700, "Howard Henry Schlunder" wroth:

Here's the routing table. Thanks to everybody who refreshed my memory about the redirection symbol, ">".

=========================================================================== Interface List

0x1 ........................... MS TCP Loopback interface 0x2 ...00 40 2b 6a 9b 8f ...... Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC - Packet Scheduler Miniport =========================================================================== =========================================================================== Active Routes: Network Destination Netmask Gateway Interface Metric 127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 1 255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 2 1 =========================================================================== Persistent Routes: None

It looks to me like a default route table with nothing special in it.

The Ethereal capture of a "ping" will go up on ABSE as soon as I run it. I apoligize to everybody for being so slow, but I do have to work a little for the guys who give me grocery money. 8-)

Jim

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 23:08:46 GMT, snipped-for-privacy@nowhere.net wroth:

I just did the ping test. What showed up is exactly like the last few packets in the first capture I posted, "Spanning-tree-(for-bridges)_00", repeated at a one packet every two seconds. There's no indication of my computer outputting any packets

When I first set this computer up, I was using a crossover ethernet cable to pull files off my old computer, so I know the ethernet port worked at one time.

I am far from giving up on this little silver box and I do appreciate all the help that everybody has given me so far.

Jim

Freebies are precious well out of proportion to their value. As learning experiences go, this one has very limited value. Even if it does work at the end, all you managed to learn is what you probably already knew: networks are invisible when they're working, frustrating to the point of tears when they don't.

From your route results: Your PC isn't set up for IP on ethernet. The only interface recognized is loopback.

So how are things now? As Mike said, you need to set your TCP/IP stack up better. You should set a static IP address of 192.168.2.2 on the NIC with a netmask of 255.255.255.0. After doing this (and having a cable connecting the Ethernet card to the router so the Ethernet port has a link), what does your routing table look like?

You should have several entries, like mine: =========================================================================== Interface List

0x1 ........................... MS TCP Loopback interface 0x10003 ...00 0d 61 36 e7 5a ...... Intel(R) PRO/100 VE Network Connection =========================================================================== =========================================================================== Active Routes: Network Destination Netmask Gateway Interface Metric 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.11.1 192.168.11.2 20 127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 1 192.168.11.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.11.2 192.168.11.2 20 192.168.11.2 255.255.255.255 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 20 192.168.11.255 255.255.255.255 192.168.11.2 192.168.11.2 20 224.0.0.0 240.0.0.0 192.168.11.2 192.168.11.2 20 255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 192.168.11.2 192.168.11.2 1 Default Gateway: 192.168.11.1 =========================================================================== Persistent Routes: None

Here, 192.168.11.2 is my Intel PRO/100's IP address. Until your TCP/IP stack is set up and your routing table changes to reflect that, Ethereal captures won't be too meaningful.

On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 06:12:22 -0700, "Howard Henry Schlunder" wroth:

I've made some progress. Here's what the settings look like now:

============================================================================== Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\\Documents and Settings\\Owner>ipconfig

Windows IP Configuration

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 3:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.2.12 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.2.1

C:\\Documents and Settings\\Owner>ping 192.168.2.1

Pinging 192.168.2.1 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 192.168.2.1: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=64 Reply from 192.168.2.1: bytes=32 time

Looks like you figured something out, or got some help. Well done.

;-)

Click on the little "C:\\" icon in the extreme top left of the window, then select "Edit" "Mark" from the menu that appears. Highlight the text with the mouse then click the icon again selecting "Edit" "Copy" from the menu.

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You have to use the mouse. I think it's in a menu somewhere to copy but microsoft keepss changing the user interface, keyboard shortcuts don't work.

Bye. Jasen

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 20:22:12 +0000 (UTC), "The Cheese Machine" wroth:

Microsoft stuff may not be good, but at least it's consistent. Consistently bad.

Jim