Netgear DGN 2200v3 Tweaks

Listing down some of the tweaks for Netgear DGN2200v3 Router. 

• Telnet Backdoor ( Telnet Enable) - http://192.168.0.1/setup.cgi?todo=debug - This will enable telnet port on the router and you can use a standard telnet client or putty  to login to the router. Username and Password will be "admin" and the respective password. Note: Replace 192.168.0.1 with IP address of your router in case if you have changed it already.
• To enable blinking WLAN LED upon data flow

• Enable Telnet backdoor
• login to the router using a telnet client 
• Execute below commands

• mount -o remount,rw /

• cd /usr/etc

• echo "/etc/rc.custom &" >> rcS

• echo "#!/bin/sh " >> rc.custom

• echo "#Customer Startup Script" >> rc.custom

• echo "sleep 60" >> rc.custom

• echo "/bin/wl ledbh 3 7" >> rc.custom

• chmod 755 rc.custom

• Reboot the router 

• To enable blinking Internet LED upon data flow
• Enable Telnet backdoor
• login to the router using a telnet client 
• Execute below commands

• mount -o remount,rw /

• cd /usr/etc/ppp

• echo "/sbin/echo 0301 > /proc/led" >> ip-up

• echo "/sbin/echo 0300 > /proc/led" >> ip-down

• Reboot the router

• Configuring Transmission Torrent Client
• You should be running amod2200 ROM which has Transmission Torrent Client built in
• For Transmission Torrent Client to work an external storage device is needed ( USB Thumb drive or Hard Disk should be connected to the USB port of the router
• First drive will be detected as "U" drive within the router
• Create a directory structure as below under the root folder. Below commands assume the USB device is detected as "U" drive on a windows machine

• mkdir "U:\transmission"

• mkdir "U:\torrent"

• mkdir "U:\torrent\downloads"

• mkdir "U:\torrent\start"

• mkdir "U:\torrent\temp"



•  Alternatively creating the same directory structure from within the router ( Assuming the USB device is detected as "U" drive )





mkdir /mnt/shares/U/torrents/

mkdir /mnt/shares/U/transmission

mkdir /mnt/shares/U/downloads

mkdir /mnt/shares/U/start

mkdir /mnt/shares/U/temp

• start and stop torrent client one's. This step will create a standard settings.json file under "transmission" directory
• Execute below client to start and stop the client from within the router
• cd /etc/amod/init.d
• ./torrent start
• ./torrent stop
• Edit the "transmission/settings.json" file and below lines using your favourite editor ( Firmware has nano editor build in which is as easy as a notepad to use )

• watch-dir-enabled": true"

• start-added-torrents": true,

• "trash-original-torrent-files": true,

• "incomplete-dir-enabled": true,

• "download-dir": "/mnt/shares/U/torrents/downloads",

• "incomplete-dir": "/mnt/shares/U/torrents/temp",

• "watch-dir": "/mnt/shares/U/torrents/start",

• Configuration is complete. Login into the Web Interface and enable Transmission Torrent Client under "Services --> Amod " page.
• For adding any new torrent just  upload / copy .torrent file to "torrents/start" folder. Transmission will automatically pick it up and once download is completed will move the completed download to "torrents/downloads". "/torrents/temp" folder will be used to hold files during download process.

Watch out this space for more such tweaks and custom scripts. Please share your comments here.