Re: tools to get a mirror of modem/router configuration

["H.S." <hs.samix@gmail.com>]

Celejar wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:32:19 -0500
> "H.S." <hs.samix@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> H.S. wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I vaguely recall that we can somehow "copy" or mirror the configuration
>>> interface (accessible via a browser) of a modem or a router to a local
>>> hard disk. This can be then browsed from that saved copy. Anybody know
>>> if we have tools or packages in Debian to do so?
>>>
>>> The objective is to 'mirror' the configuration of a modem so that I can
>>> walk the user through the configuration steps whenever need be (I can
>>> click through the interface on my copy and the user will be browsing his
>>> modem's actual interface).
> 
> I don't have an answer for you, but I'm having trouble imagining that
> there can really be any solution for the general case.  These units, at
> least the home / SOHO types with which I'm familiar, all use
> proprietary web based interfaces, often with lots of (yuck)
> javascript.  For any given interface, I suppose one could write some
> sort of scraper, but how could this be implemented as a general tool?


Yes, this particular modem has all the pages as a script (cgi).

Well, at least this shown I am not missing some tool that actually would
do this job.

Thanks.


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