Accessing router settings from LINUX

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Simply opening your browser and going to http://192.168.1.1 will not get to the settings page. Atleast that was the case with me (on Reliance ADSL with ZXDSL 831 Series).

My ifconfig said:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:19:D1:3C:74:6E 
		  inet addr:123.*.*.*  Bcast:123.237.135.255  Mask:255.255.248.0
		  inet6 addr: fe80::219:*:*:*/64 Scope:Link
		  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
		  RX packets:10950498 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
		  TX packets:6864372 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
		  collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
		  RX bytes:7221735642 (6887.1 Mb)  TX bytes:1314931540 (1254.0 Mb)
		  Interrupt:20 Memory:90300000-90320000 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback 
		  inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
		  inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
		  UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
		  RX packets:46637 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
		  TX packets:46637 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
		  collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
		  RX bytes:4759514 (4.5 Mb)  TX bytes:4759514 (4.5 Mb)

So, that means that my ip shown is not a LOCAL address (I am not behind NAT).

To access router which is probably 192.168.1.1, I would have to be in the same class of ip address as the router. Thats it.

A quick command to do that is:

sudo ifconfig eth0:1 192.168.1.10 netmask 255.255.255.0

Now, my ifconfig looks something like:

  eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:19:D1:3C:74:6E  
            inet addr:123.237.*.*  Bcast:123.237.135.255  Mask:255.255.248.0
            inet6 addr: fe80::219:*:*:*/64 Scope:Link
            UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
            RX packets:8628562 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
            TX packets:5663529 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
            collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
            RX bytes:6011401968 (5732.9 Mb)  TX bytes:1037953220 (989.8 Mb)
            Interrupt:20 Memory:90300000-90320000 
  
  eth0:1    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:19:D1:3C:74:6E  
            inet addr:192.168.1.10  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
            UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
            Interrupt:20 Memory:90300000-90320000 
  
  lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
            inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
            inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
            UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
            RX packets:37184 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
            TX packets:37184 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
            collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
            RX bytes:3305323 (3.1 Mb)  TX bytes:3305323 (3.1 Mb)

Now, that I am in the class & my routing table looks like:-

shadyabhi@ArchLinux ~ $ ip route show
192.168.1.0/24 dev eth0  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.1.10 
123.237.128.0/21 dev eth0  proto kernel  scope link  src 123.237.133.161  metric 1 
default via 123.237.128.1 dev eth0  proto static 
shadyabhi@ArchLinux ~ $

Thats it. Now, you can access your router page through browser.