Wow, as I was out of the office all day, it took a good twenty minutes to glance through all of the previous entries since my last. Sometimes I wonder why I am even bothering with this, but hey, whatever. As per one reply that quoted that I had not "proven" anything, that is fine, the fact is that I have nothing to prove, I made a statement, it is true, part of what we do involves grabbing those logs from a random router sometimes, and I don't even look to see whether logging is on or off because most web interfaces to commercial routers throw that log into an I-Frame and it is harder to read that way for us than to an SSH client. To more directly answer that one reply, I really do not care whether you believe it or not, it was a statement and it is true.
I noticed in another reply that someone had misread something that I wanted to clarify. My router does not run Apache, I was using the log file from one of our web servers as a comparison to the log file in my router. Just a point of clarification and nothing else.
As far as SSH, yes, most of the time we use Putty, personally I like the fact that if I am going to work with a specific router repeatedly and it is not in the same LAN, then I can save the settings and not have to look up or remember an IP address, the only thing I do not like about Putty is the fact that there is a scroll back buffer.
I saw someone ask how to SSH into a router that has dd-wrt on it. I have not touched that custom OS for a long time and only worked with it maybe twice, we hit too many types and brands of routers and it seemed pretty limited to what it could install on at the time I looked. That being said, I have no idea how you would get into it, but I was under the impression that the whole reason for installing dd-wrt was to open up more options and functionality for the router, so I assume that something simple like SSH is in there somewhere.
Our client list is from the past five years, updated weekly from five operating locations, six people each location. Using a simple search and replace, I was able to determine that around 30% were common email domains such as hotmail, Yahoo.....the rest are private email domains. Just as a point of trivia, it takes a separate computer, running nothing but the OS and our private mass mailing software a little over three days to send out a small email with minimal media. We sell a copy of it every once in awhile to a client who needs a little extra boost and have heard of it taking as long as five days, just a point of trivia.
Ports/ Varies by router and we maintain a file with them by brand and model. Rarely 22. Almost impossible to change. Most of them we acquired as we went along by ordering or requesting the technical handbook for each one we needed. Same thing for the default password and username. We shouldn't and wouldn't just hand that information out, mostly because people will just screw up their router. If you absolutely, must, to prevent the end of the world, and was told by the creator of the universe that you have to get into your router through that interface, then send me a private message on here or email me at
terry@revolutionvps.net. I only show up here once a day, so don't be surprised if emailing me is the better way.