Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2021 9:28 Post subject: Is there an easy way to get a human readable configuration?
As one should configure the options manually in some situations (big update step for example) instead of restore a backup how can the configuration be extracted, human readable?
Till now I made screenshots and copied longer text to notepad. Then I made the update with reset and had to copy paste it back or read from screenshot and write text in GUI.
Is there some automated way to obtain the current configuration in human readable form - easily?
Other methods besides screenshot and copy/paste to text file (notepad++ is better) would be 'nvram show' / 'nvram show | sort' (the latter would muck up continuity of your host key and ssh login keys, FYI).
There used to be an old utility for this, or rather editing your nvram backup, not sure how usable it is these days as it was written for Windows 9x/NT/2k/Me/Vista:
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Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2021 13:45 Post subject:
all here... we are on the same boat...
copy/paste, screen shots, 'nvram snow' mark it all + ctrl+c than paste on txt...it never fails...
In general, reset is not compulsory..only when there are memory location changes and some other general stuff or you have a gremlins in nvram, or router behaves abnormal...
If im not wrong,Broadcom devices and Atheros devices are different in terms of saving nvram variables over update..
when i started i used to run very simple set up and rebuild manually was fun, now its not, as it takes time
do in mind, do not use save file from a different builds... _________________ Atheros
TP-Link WR740Nv1 ---DD-WRT 55630 WAP
TP-Link WR1043NDv2 -DD-WRT 55723 Gateway/DoT,Forced DNS,Ad-Block,Firewall,x4VLAN,VPN
TP-Link WR1043NDv2 -Gargoyle OS 1.15.x AP,DNS,QoS,Quotas
Qualcomm-Atheros
Netgear XR500 --DD-WRT 55779 Gateway/DoH,Forced DNS,AP Isolation,4VLAN,Ad-Block,Firewall,Vanilla
Netgear R7800 --DD-WRT 55819 Gateway/DoT,AD-Block,Forced DNS,AP&Net Isolation,x3VLAN,Firewall,Vanilla
Netgear R9000 --DD-WRT 55779 Gateway/DoT,AD-Block,AP Isolation,Firewall,Forced DNS,x2VLAN,Vanilla
Broadcom
Netgear R7000 --DD-WRT 55460 Gateway/SmartDNS/DoH,AD-Block,Firewall,Forced DNS,x3VLAN,VPN
NOT USING 5Ghz ANYWHERE
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Stubby DNS over TLS I DNSCrypt v2 by mac913
Use browser print function save as PDF. Chromium and FF, probably others.
Prints the whole page and can be copied from, unlike (my) screenshots.
Check all advanced setting boxes and expand all text boxes first.
Some won't expand enough and you have to copy to file or screenshot. eg: SSH keys and DDNS hostname
Some popups won't print, such as .../FilterIPMAC.asp use other measures.
Good advice Bushant
just a lil note -- I don't have a bit of problem print-to-PDF (all pages) from any DD-WRT webif
https://mrjcd.com/junk/dd-wrt/022827/Filter_List.pdf ...I don't use MAC filter but just checkin/showing
that is using:
I removed all Chromium from this Debian since Google does what Google does and a while back they quit letting Chromium sync
with your Google account. I have years of passwords and other stuff I liked to have synced with whatever I am on so I bit the
bullet and installed Chrome on Debian using: ...as root
GNU nano 5.4 /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
### THIS FILE IS AUTOMATICALLY CONFIGURED ###
# You may comment out this entry, but any other modifications may be lost.
deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
#
of course I use Firefox ESR for all my really important stuff --- banking / online payments / stuff Google don't need knowing
78.11.0esr (64-bit)
However, I have NO problem with Chrome installing on any of my routers so that's good for me also.
AND I can wipe it away iffin I ever need to ... but then I would have have to put all them dangol passwords in Fixefox or Chromium and
they have easy enough way to export password & login junk, it is a different matter to get it all in another browser.