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Originally Posted by JoeD
Either way, that's nothing to do with the discussion of log sizes. What we asked for, was the command you ran to access the logs, which you've finally answered, you use a text editor to open the log file (e.g vi). That suggests you're not using "consumer" routers.
Most consumer routers will not have such a utility available. The two consumer routers I have don't even have telnet access, the one non-consumer router I have (bottom end and not a cisco) does have telnet (yes it's insecure  ) but is not running anything that allows file system access. |
I don't know if you're interested in upgrading your consumer routers but if you are I would thoroughly recommend
DD-WRT. Mine is a Cisco/Linksys WRT 610N v2. I can't honestly remember what the default firmware has as I only ever loaded it once before I installed DD-WRT but I'm fairly sure it didn't have telnet, or SSH or any of the other many goodies it now runs. On top of the basic DD-WRT I was able to install
Optware The Right Way which adds all sorts of capabilities of its own. Essentially the combination takes an inexpensive home router and gives it lower end commercial router capabilities which would normally cost hundreds of dollars.
As long as you're comfortable flashing third party firmware and would like the capabilities I think it's pretty much a no-brainer, though I'd strongly recommend reading the
forums and
wiki before doing anything with it as some of the home page version recommendations are out of date.