Joined: 22 Jun 2008 Posts: 2440 Location: Am now Dark_Shadow
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 6:51 Post subject:
LOM wrote:
DHC_DarkShadow wrote:
Also noted that searching the cfe I backup via the GUI yields none of the mac address' within. However there is a generic mac addressed to el0
There is no unique mac address in the CFE, I have compared CFE's from different users and they are all same.
There are only 2 different CFE's the old 600v1.0 and the newer 600v1.1, a 600v1.0 can have a 1.1 CFE if it was refurbished by Linksys.
There are strong indications that they upgraded their current stock of unsold 1.0's to 1.1's when the 1.1 was introduced.
The FCC site shows a regulatory change of 1.0 at the same time as the 1.1 was approved and the regulatory change was an update to full 5GHz frequency band coverage.
so where are the mac's stored? How would I go about changing them? The reason i ask is i am pretty sure that the lan mac and wl1 mac are not supposed to be the same, _________________ The New Me
And where does it get them from to store them in the nvram?
Well, there are a few possibilities but you could start with erasing your nvram, committing the write, and then reboot to see if they appear again. _________________ Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!
a hrad reset would accomplish the same thing and they come back the same.
Maybe, I don't know if a hard reset will erase nvram on a 600 but if you're sure it does then the mac is stored elsewhere.
What happens if you enable jffs2 (all remaining space as jffs) , enable clean jffs, reboot and then try to erase the nvram?
Do you still get the MAC's back? _________________ Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!
when i bricked my 600n, i had to do a nvram erase, the hard reset didn't work for me.
No, I can't see the reset button erasing nvram when I look at the CFE code.
Makes sense to remove that function to protect router unique parameters in nvram from being erased by a user. _________________ Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!
Joined: 22 Jun 2008 Posts: 2440 Location: Am now Dark_Shadow
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 17:50 Post subject:
LOM wrote:
DHC_DarkShadow wrote:
a hrad reset would accomplish the same thing and they come back the same.
Maybe, I don't know if a hard reset will erase nvram on a 600 but if you're sure it does then the mac is stored elsewhere.
What happens if you enable jffs2 (all remaining space as jffs) , enable clean jffs, reboot and then try to erase the nvram?
Do you still get the MAC's back?
I was told not enable jffs or it would erase the last partition and brick the router. Not sure about the details, barryware told me. _________________ The New Me
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Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 17:58 Post subject:
DHC_DarkShadow wrote:
LOM wrote:
Maybe, I don't know if a hard reset will erase nvram on a 600 but if you're sure it does then the mac is stored elsewhere.
What happens if you enable jffs2 (all remaining space as jffs) , enable clean jffs, reboot and then try to erase the nvram?
Do you still get the MAC's back?
I was told not enable jffs or it would erase the last partition and brick the router. Not sure about the details, barryware told me.
A hard reset "can" erase the nvram, but that does not clear the mac address.
Also, enabling jffs *does NOT* brick the router. I have enabled it before, and I still have a working router. _________________ E3000 22200M KongVPN K26
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Joined: 26 Jan 2008 Posts: 13049 Location: Behind The Reset Button
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 18:06 Post subject:
DHC_DarkShadow wrote:
LOM wrote:
DHC_DarkShadow wrote:
a hrad reset would accomplish the same thing and they come back the same.
Maybe, I don't know if a hard reset will erase nvram on a 600 but if you're sure it does then the mac is stored elsewhere.
What happens if you enable jffs2 (all remaining space as jffs) , enable clean jffs, reboot and then try to erase the nvram?
Do you still get the MAC's back?
I was told not enable jffs or it would erase the last partition and brick the router. Not sure about the details, barryware told me.
I looked for the thread but I can not find it.. I think the part I need was split from the main thread.
There is an additional partition called "factory" on the 600. This is where the device specific data is. I was told that enabling jffs would wipe this out. I didn't try it myself. _________________ [Moderator Deleted]
@ all 600N users.
Don't enable jffs in your routers, the board data partition in flash which contains your MAC address and all radio parameters will be overwritten!!