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Doing Basic Router Housekeeping
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Chapter 5
Doing Basic Router Housekeeping
This chapter describes how to use some of the maintenance features of your Router. These features
can be found by clicking on the Maintenance heading in the Main Menu of the browser interface.
Other maintenance features not presented in this chapter can be found accessed via links in the
browser interface of the router to the User Guide and in the help screens.
Changing the Administrator Password
The default password for the router’s Web Configuration Manager is password. Change this
password to a more secure password.
From the Main Menu of the browser interface, under the Maintenance heading, select Set
Password to bring up the menu shown below.
Figure 5-1: Set Password menu
Note: Before changing the router password, follow the instructions under
to save your configuration settings. If you forget the new
password, you will have to reset the router back to the factory defaults to be able to log in
using the default password of password. This means you will have to restore all the
router configuration settings. If you ever have to reset the router back to the factory
defaults, you can restore your settings from the backup configuration file.