new router status page problem

Sylphid scott at chaos-dragon.com
Sat Jan 10 03:23:12 UTC 2009


Wade Smart wrote:
> Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Tony Yarusso wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Wade Smart <wadesmart at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 20090108 2209 GMT-5
>>>>
>>>> My router failed so I borrowed a Linksys with ddwrt until I get my new
>>>> one. When I had just my linksys router when I had port forwarding off it
>>>> just showed a blank page of some sort.. I dont recall now but it was
>>>> nothing to worry about. Now though, when I have port forwarding off it
>>>> shows the ddwrt status page. Im a little uneasy with all the information
>>>> it shows.
>>>>
>>>> Im sure others have had this problem and have posted on the ddwrt forums
>>>>  but Im just not getting my search times right cause I cant find
>>>> anything that even sounds similar to my problem.
>>>>
>>>> Are there any options?
>>> DD-WRT has an option to password-restrict the status page.
>> And restrict it to https, I believe.
>>
>>
>>
> 
> 20090109 1129 GMT-5
> 
> It does, and I have put a password on it, but the basic status page you 
> dont need a password on. You an view quite a bit of info before actually 
> signing on to make any changes.
> 
> Wade
> 

Im running 24-sp1 and you can protect the info site by going to 
Administration > Management > check the "Info Site Password Protection" 
box. Dont forget that you have already authenticated so you will have to 
clear your authenticated sessions before trying again to verify that is 
working.




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