Any way to read config files?

[5mall5nail5]

I had to reset my router today - almost 100% up again, but I had a ton of IP reservations and port forwards setup. Is there a way to read the configs? I opened in notepad++ and its all encrypted.

 

[linkmaster]

If you reset it and had the configs saved , couldn't you just load the config back in again?

 

[5mall5nail5]

If you reset it and had the configs saved , couldn't you just load the config back in again?

Yes but I am not convinced that something isn't wonky in the config. I had the vpn client setup to connect at WAN and perhaps other settings that screwed the router up. I really just want to grab my dhcp reservations and port forwards.

 

[v720222]

I had to reset my router today - almost 100% up again, but I had a ton of IP reservations and port forwards setup. Is there a way to read the configs? I opened in notepad++ and its all encrypted.

I believe the config file is compressed (not encrypted). Try using 7zip to decompress it first. Then used Notepad++ to convert the 'nul' EOLs to LF or CRLF EOLs. Good luck.

 

[RMerlin]

I believe the config file is compressed (not encrypted). Try using 7zip to decompress it first. Then used Notepad++ to convert the 'nul' EOLs to LF or CRLF EOLs. Good luck.

It's actually a very basic encryption, where they add a random value to each byte. I'm not entirely sure why they do this, beside preventing a backed up config from being easily found through a simple text search.