How to turn off printer monopoly mode?

[netmik3]

 

[arias]

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Ironically I just came here to find this out myself. My router is stuck in Monopoly mode and I don't see an off switch. Anyone know?

 

[netmik3]

Seems like the button is missing. Maybe there's an ssh command

 

[arias]

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I wonder if it's a bug that the button for enabling / disabling Monopoly mode is not there anymore after enabling it. Did you just upgrade your firmware?

 

[netmik3]

I wonder if it's a bug that the button for enabling / disabling Monopoly mode is not there anymore after enabling it. Did you just upgrade your firmware?

Yeah I'm sure it went missing since no one really uses this

@Merlin do you know the command we can run?

 

[bennor]

@Merlin do you know the command we can run?

Corrected. "@RMerlin do you know the command we can run?"

 

[RMerlin]

In 10+ years I have never ever used or looked at printer sharing.

 

[arias]

hm, any idea who added this feature?

In 10+ years I have never ever used or looked at printer sharing.

Would it be possible to remove this feature altogether? Since it's basically been reduced to a zombie background process taking up resources and interfering with print sharing while retaining no way to disable it from the GUI?

 

[jacklul]

Looked at the older source code of my router and it seems like the off switch is supposed to show up in the router's web UI (somewhere near monopoly mode IP) when accessed from the IP that monopoly mode mentions.

This might disable the feature as they are referenced/modified by the web UI files:

nvram set mfp_ip_monopoly=
nvram set mfp_monopolize=
nvram commit

A reboot will be required after changing these.

 

[netmik3]

Thanks! Seems to have worked

 

[bennor]

hm, any idea who added this feature?

Asus did.

How can I enable Monopoly mode for printer? | Official Support | ASUS Global

 

[arias]

Looked at the older source code of my router and it seems like the off switch is supposed to show up in the router's web UI (somewhere near monopoly mode IP) when accessed from the IP that monopoly mode mentions.

This might disable the feature as they are referenced/modified by the web UI files:

nvram set mfp_ip_monopoly=
nvram set mfp_monopolize=
nvram commit

A reboot will be required after changing these.

Thanks for this insight as I was able to get the button back by assigning static DHCP IP to my address. That's when I learned that monopoly mode wasn't actually really enabled because it required me to press it to enable it when coming from the monopoly mode IP. But when logged into the GUI from a non-monopoly mode IP it would misleading say that monopoly mode was enabled when it was not.

I should have verified if it was running from the shell instead of blindly trusting what the GUI told me so thanks for putting me on the path.