Some help please can I port foward on a virgin supplied netgear WGR614 router or is is it possable to install netgear drivers .
Any help would be handy .
Netgear provides a developer tool for unlocking the console access from a Windows client. Windows NT and later versions are assumed to work, administrator privileges are required. This was successfully tested on Windows XP SP2.
Here's the process:
Login to Windows using an account which has administrative privileges (needed for sending custom crafted network packets which this tool does)
You will see a M$ Word doc which contains screenshots and instructions in korean language, a firmware update (you don't need this) and the telnetEnable.exe tool
Open a command line (windows console) window. To do so, press and hold windows key, then press R once and release both. In the new windows, type cmd, then press enter)
Get the MAC address of your Netgear router. You can use either 'arp -a' and use the 'physical address' or look it up on the web interface of your router (Maintenance -> Router status -> LAN port -> MAC Address)
Copy or type the MAC address to a text editor such as Notepad, Wordpad or Write
Remove any minus signs (-) or colons ), replace all characters by their upper case representation (a -> A, d-> D etc.)
Copy the result of your editing to the clipboard and return to the command line window
type (without quotes) "telnetenable.exe ", the IP address of your router (e.g. "192.168.1.1"), add another space (" "), paste the contents of the clipboard, and append " Gearguy Geardog". These are the default username and password for telnet console access (they differ from those of the web interface), you need to modify them appropriately if you changed them previously. The result should look similar to this: