Can I avoid doing a factory reset?

[elenhil]

I'm in a bit of a pickle: I restricted access to my router's GUI to my desktop's IP (and made it always get the same IP through DHCP or something). For several years, it just worked. Now, a couple of days ago I somehow lost the ability to access my router that way. Turns out, my desktop's IP had changed. I tried setting it manually, and it did. But I still can't access my router's GUI from it.

I can, however, access it through SSH (even though it now warns me the router's fingerprint has for some reason changed). Is it possible to reset that one restrictive setting to access the router's GUI from any LAN IP by editing some config file? I really don't fancy factory resetting it as a whole.

Please advise!

 

[ColinTaylor]

Try this:

nvram set enable_acc_restriction=0
service restart_httpd

 

[elenhil]

Try this:

nvram set enable_acc_restriction=0
service restart_httpd

SSH said 'Done', but otherwise nothing much changed. Unless I needed to reboot the router, too.

 

[ColinTaylor]

What router model and firmware version?

Try this:

service restart_firewall

 

[elenhil]

What router model and firmware version?

Try this:

service restart_firewall

service restart_firewall didn't do much either. The model is AC66U, and the firmware is 386.14_2. The only major change lately was me installing FlexQoS, if that matters.

 

[ColinTaylor]

Try rebooting the router if you haven't already tried that. If that doesn't work then I think something else is the issue.

 

[elenhil]

Try rebooting the router if you haven't already tried that. If that doesn't work then I think something else is the issue.

I did reboot it. No dice.

Are there any intermediate steps I could take before FR it? Like a mini-reset?

 

[ColinTaylor]

I did reboot it. No dice.

Are there any intermediate steps I could take before FR it? Like a mini-reset?

Well as you still have SSH access you can change any settings you think might be the culprit. But you've already tried disabling access restrictions. If you think it's somehow connected to FlexQoS you could try disabling all custom scripts and seeing if that helps.

nvram set jffs2_scripts=0
nvram commit
service reboot

EDIT: Corrected typo.

If you have a "Save settings" file from before the problem occurred you could try reloading that.

 

[elenhil]

Well as you still have SSH access you can change any settings you think might be the culprit. But you've already tried disabling access restrictions. If you think it's somehow connected to FlexQoS you could try disabling all custom scripts and seeing if that helps.

nvram set jffs2_scripts=0
nvram commit
service reboot

EDIT: Corrected typo.

If you have a "Save settings" file from before the problem occurred you could try reloading that.

Still no dice. I guess I'll have to try FR later today...