HOW TO GET OUT FROM PLDT CGNAT

 I am one of those among the PLDT Fiberhome subscriber who have been under CGNAT for so many months until last December 18, 2019 I finally found the solution on how to UNCGNAT my own PLDT Fiberhome ONU. I did many times calling 171 and talking with different CSR (customer service representative) but I ended up with the so called Filipino terminology as "PA-ASA". So I gave my patience on calling 171 for begging the UNCGNATTING waiting on the PLDT IVRS even more than two hours but still no luck at all.

I decided to Google on the net but of course the Giant search engine can give nothing the answer for me and my query to any related issue, except that the online monster web dictionary Wikipedia  can explain what is CGNAT is and how does it works. Further digging despite reddit and twitter are well known similar scenario PLDT CGNAT is still unknown they do not have any clue on how to do it except bribe the organic crew, those people sitting in the NOC so they can take a look on your account for them to deCGNAT it.

Once upon a time in early 2016 I have stumble upon into the PLDT Fibrhome Infra this is during my sister house being offered by the PLDT Fiberhome subscriber agent to get free installation and the device. I was the one who talk to the guy and I get the offer to have the fiber internet for my sister account. When the PLDT organic during that time they are the one who really install from the outside including the inside, I was the one who attended for the installation of my sister PLDT internet fiber connection. I was lucky I was also the first from the who use their internet fiber connection making assessment how fast really is the Giant Telco of the Philippines.

Its not a malice thing when you wanted to probe something in your mind that you have happened did it before, so I went on and yes I stumble to the PLDT Fiberhome Infra. For sure I did not touch anything except touring around from CLI to the Shell. Yes all subscriber are listed in there and I just leave it as it is.

I recall that once upon a time a visit that place, now the time I am jailed by this so called CGNAT perhaps it might give me an inputs on how to dismantle this crazy subjection on my ONU by me ISP.

When I revisited the place were I stumble upon during that time I found the answer to my concerned that it was just as easy as remove the clams from its shell. So on Dcember 18, 2019 I posted on this blog that I have solved my CGNAT.

Many of my readers asking and even begging the tutorials on how to do it, they emailed me, commented but not all of them I have given the favor to deCGNAT their ONU.

Good, today PLDT CSR already learned how to respond on the CGNAT issue there are many PLDT subscriber already deCGNAT by calling 171 and there are also still plenty of them not given the favor and still under CGNAT.

How to deCGNAT or UNCGNAT your PLDT Fiberhome ONU internet connection? Here is I can suggest that PLDT will take action on CGNAT issue even your account is not a Biz Plan. First, they weigh your situation if you really need the deCGANTTING. If you can convince the 1st level CSR that your request UNCGNAT is really a must then they will immediately transfer you to the 2nd level person who are authorized the deCGNATTING.

Scenario 1, let say you have / you tend to have an IP security camera in your home that needs public IP address so you can remotely access or view from the outside world this is a vital and they will attend to your request.

Scenario 2, Alarm system such as fire alarm, or other similar alarm system that needs monitoring.

For this case they do not have any option but instead deCGNAT your ONU right away.

Scenario 3, PLST CSR are getting reluctant on this kind of request for deCGNATTING such as , FTP Server, Web Server, Cloud or similar to this.

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PLDT Fiberhome ONU RP2684

As per request one of my commentator on this blog, a legit PLDTHOMEFIBR subscriber commented that his AN5506-04-F ONU/ONT just get recently patched with firmware RP2684 and nowhere to find the password for adminpldt account.

Yes there is few changes of  this firmware RP2684 of Fiberhome ONU AN5506-04-F one of those is the prevention from gaining the adminpldt access level to do the configurations on the web user interface so PLDT can limit the subscribers from doing so to the said FTTH device.

Here a list of the command line interface that you can do or practice. Take note that any alteration done by you or by your behalf will void the warranty of your PLDT Fiberhome ONT/ONU device when malfunction occur.

WRI(DEBUG_H)> list
0. active section [0|1]
1. bobtest read_regs slave_addr <0-255> begin_addr <0-255> count <1-32>
2. bobtest write_regs slave_addr <0-255> begin_addr <0-255> count <1-32> value1 <0-255> {value2 <0-255>}*1 {value3 <0-255>}*1 {value4 <0-255>}*1 {value5 <0-255>}*1 {value6 <0-255>}*1 {value7 <0-255>}*1 {value8 <0-255>}*1 {value9 <0-255>}*1 {value10 <0-255>}*1 {value11 <0-255>}*1 {value12 <0-255>}*1 {value13 <0-255>}*1 {value14 <0-255>}*1 {value15 <0-255>}*1 {value16 <0-255>}*1 {value17 <0-255>}*1 {value18 <0-255>}*1 {value19 <0-255>}*1 {value20 <0-255>}*1 {value21 <0-255>}*1 {value22 <0-255>}*1 {value23 <0-255>}*1 {value24 <0-255>}*1 {value25 <0-255>}*1 {value26 <0-255>}*1 {value27 <0-255>}*1 {value28 <0-255>}*1 {value29 <0-255>}*1 {value30 <0-255>}*1 {value31 <0-255>}*1 {value32 <0-255>}*1
3. clear
4. clear_save gpio
5. commit section [0|1]
6. control opticalgenerator [enable|disable] mode [prbs7|prbs15|prbs23|prbs31|alt]
7. debug cli_msg id
8. debug cli_msg send_buf
9. del port_vlan_service
10. delete onuhw version
11. exit
12. fandebug [enable|disable]
13. get image status
14. get nvram
15. get system status
16. get version info
17. get web [user|admin] username
18. help
19. i2c read
20. i2c write
21. list
22. mibreset
23. optdebug [enable|disable]
24. output redirect
25. printenv env_key FHSNOUI
26. printenv env_key ethaddr
27. quit
28. read gpio <0-256>
29. read i2c device page <0-255> addr <0-255>
30. run [local_config]
31. run [omci_tl]
32. set bar code [pcb|bosa]
33. set black_list
34. set debug_level
35. set default-printf-to [disable|console|telnet|all]
36. set dhcp_delivery [disable|enable]
37. set electricfan run temperature <0-100> stop temperature <0-100>
38. set nvram
39. set oam_print [rx|tx|stop]
40. set omci_status
41. set onuhw version
42. set opt power [enable|disable]
43. set opt rxpoweradjust1 min max offset
44. set opt rxpoweradjust2 min max offset
45. set optoutpower level <0-2>
46. set optoutpower offset
47. set optpoll [enable|disable]
48. set optrxpower offset
49. set ponrate_config_switch <0-1>
50. set port_all_isolation [disable|enable]
51. set port_attribute [L2|L3]
52. set port_igmp_state [0|1]
53. set port_isolation [disable|enable]
54. set port_vlan_service
55. set pppoe_delivery [disable|enable]
56. set print_num
57. set queue_protect [on|off]
58. set show_packets [rx|tx|rtx|stop]
59. set web [user|admin] username password
60. set web default [user|admin] username password
61. setbuttondebug [disable|enable|start]
62. setleddebug [disable|enable|on|off]
63. setlog [omci|none] [old|pkt|timer|conf|temp|info|none|warning]
64. setpmlog <0-1>
65. setusbdebug
66. shell
67. show [ponrate_config_switch]
68. show bar code [pcb|bosa]
69. show black_list
70. show catv rf
71. show debugversion
72. show electricfan work temperature
73. show history
74. show optoutpower level
75. show optoutpower offset
76. show optrxpower adjust
77. show port_info
78. show power supply
79. show print_num
80. show queue_info
81. tshell
82. updateenv ethaddr
83. updateenv fhsnoui
84. upload ftp any
85. write gpio <0-256> <0-1>
86. write i2c device page <0-255> addr <0-255> value <0-255>
87. write_save gpio

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PLDT Fiberhome HG6245D RP2602

Finally I was able to find one PLDT Fiberhome ONU HG6245D around the NCR area, the good thing is that the firmware is still unchanged its RP2602 so the default Super Admin username and password for the graphical user interface (GUI) is widely known no need to guess. How about adminpldt user account and password? Its by default you can just find it on this blog its identical to AN5506-04-FA/T there's no need to worry.

Looking at the menus I can see no difference with RP2627 and RP2631 of AN55-0406-FA but except of the IPTV sub-menu is already revealing.

Another sub-menu we can see under the Network Menu is the VoIP Settings, this will remind us that it would be possible for us to replicate the VoIP settings and make our own relay server and use a soft phone.

On the hardware side it is also an ARMv7 Processor but Broadcom chips only a single core.

#cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
model name : ARMv7 Processor rev 5 (v7l)
BogoMIPS : 100.00
Features : half thumb fastmult edsp tls idiva idivt lpae
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant : 0x0
CPU part : 0xc07
CPU revision : 5
processor : 1
model name : ARMv7 Processor rev 5 (v7l)
BogoMIPS : 100.00
Features : half thumb fastmult edsp tls idiva idivt lpae
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant : 0x0
CPU part : 0xc07
CPU revision : 5
Hardware : BCM96846
Revision : 0000
Serial : 0000000000000000
#

Going to the MTDs here is what we get

#cat /proc/mtd
dev: size erasesize name
mtd0: 03880000 00020000 "rootfsA"
mtd1: 03880000 00020000 "rootfsB"
mtd2: 00a00000 00020000 "data"
mtd3: 00100000 00020000 "nvram"
mtd4: 00200000 00020000 "PreConfigure"
mtd5: 00100000 00020000 "UserLocalCT"
mtd6: 08000000 00020000 "dummy1"
mtd7: 08000000 00020000 "dummy2"
mtd8: 01360000 0001f000 "rootfs_ubifs"
mtd9: 0001f000 0001f000 "METADATA"
mtd10: 0001f000 0001f000 "METADATACOPY"
mtd11: 01d10000 0001f000 "app_ubifs"
mtd12: 002d8484 0001f000 "filestruct_full.bin"
mtd13: 01360000 0001f000 "rootfs_ubifs"
mtd14: 0001f000 0001f000 "METADATA"
mtd15: 0001f000 0001f000 "METADATACOPY"
mtd16: 01d10000 0001f000 "app_ubifs"
mtd17: 002d8484 0001f000 "filestruct_full.bin"
mtd18: 007df000 0001f000 "data"
#

Trying to get the web username and password looks like not possible anymore on the config\web# list.

Config\web# list
0. cd [..|device|service|switch|codec|dsp|protocol|pon|gpon|omci|wlan|tr069|wan|igmp|gponl3|oam|ntp|mld|web]
1. clear
2. exit
3. help
4. list
5. show history
Config\web#

We will wait this ONU if the updates takes place will visit again to see if the CLI will most like the AN5506-04-FA/T.

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Overwrite A5-V11 Qualcomm OEM Firmware With OpenWrt Image

Here are few steps to overwrite OEM firmware of a5-v11 router with openwrt.

1) Prepare a FAT formatted USB-Flash-Drive and unzip this a5-v11-openwrt.zip to USB-Flash-Drive. (Important: do not just copy a5-v11-openwrt.zip to flash-drive, unzip this file to USB-Flash-Drive, this folder contains openwrt-factory.bin with needed boot-loader and update scripts)

2) Prepare this setup as shown in the picture below.

3) After applying +5v power to a5-v11, RED-LED on this router stays ON for few seconds, and then BLUE-LED starts blinking (from power-ON to blinking-blue-led-state, it takes about 1minute)

4) By this time, your PC would get the ip in the range of 192.168.100.x from the a5-v11's dhcp server.

5) Ensure that your a5-v11 has qualcomm firmware by looking at the web-UI of this router.

NOTE: Do not continue incase if your router's web-page is different than the one shown above(Qualcomm), you might have received another variant having chinese firmware, Instructions for overwriting the chinese firmware are given in my other blog.

6) telnet to the a5-v11 using putty.exe(or telnet command) as shown below.

6) Run the following commands as shown in the picture below

7) After rebooot, wait for a minute, this time, openwrt firmware would boot on a5-v11, and your PC would get the ip in the range of 192.168.1.x

8)If everything goes well, your browser would show the following webUI of openwrt

9) As shown above, follow step-1 and 2 to login with default root user.

10) After login you will see following page

11) you can overwrite openwrt firmware with your own openwrt-variant by clicking on menu system=>Backup/Flash Firmware as shown in the picture above.Have Fun hacking your a5-v11 with opensource firmware!!!

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Getting the PPP Username and Password for CenturyLink Zyxel C1000Z Modem

My first DSL modem in 1999 required Telnetting in via serial port to USB. I had to call a network technician at Qwest, and followed by typing in what seemed like arcane commands. I had no idea what I was doing. Things have changed for the better, but most DSL modems still have the ability to log into them directly through command line interfaces. The C1000Z runs BusyBox Linux which comes loaded with your usual base Linux utilities, so if you can wield Bash, you can hack your modem.

Grabbing your PPP username

I was looking to enabled the Transparent Bridge mode for my new Netgear R6050 after a friend managed to break the internal antenna on my Zyxel C1000Z, I wasn’t home so I don’t know the physics involved. Rather than pay $99 to CenturyLink for a new modem/router I decided to buy a new WAP/Router.

Having a little network administration under my belt, I figured I could grab the PPP Password.

The following guide was indispensable and got me 95% of the way there so I suggest checking it out first and/or following it along with my more “For Dummies” guide:

How to Find Your CenturyLink PPP Password on a Zyxel C1000Z Modem

You’ll want a basic understanding of SSH and/or Telnet. OS X regardless of version come with SSH and Telnet as does (almost) every flavor of Linux. Windows users will need Putty.

You’ll want a basic understanding of SSH and/or Telnet. OS X regardless of version come with SSH and Telnet as does (almost) every flavor of Linux. Windows users will need Putty.

Step 1:

First you’ll need to enable telnet in your Router, and you’ll need PPPoe enabled (Under WAN settings), these can easily be done through the Modem’s GUI

Step 2:

Fire up your terminal (Windows users will have to use Putty, and translate the instruction) and type:

telnet YOUR-IP-ADRRESS

In this example, my router’s IP address is 192.168.0.1, this is the default address so I would type:

telnet 192.168.0.1

It make take a moment for the router to respond, once it does, respond something like “BCM963268 Broadband Router” and it should ask for your username, type in the username you entered hit return and it should then ask for your password, enter the password you typed in, hit return.

Step 3:

Using the terminal we can call all the active tasks running on the modem, to do so type:

ps

Geek stuff: Users can use sh to access the BusyBox linux Bash shell and run task monitoring software like top. If you’re feeling adventurous, type sh and poke around using commands like ls and top. You can grab the process ID using top just like we do in step 4.

Step 4:

You should see a long list of responses, that read:

PID USER       VSZ STAT COMMAND  
1 admin     1556 S    init  
2 admin        0 SW<  [kthreadd]    3
 admin        0 SW<  [migration/0]  
4 admin        0 SW   [sirq-high/0]
and so on... We’re only interested in one entry, the one that’s running the pppd (or ppp*) command. it’ll probably be at the bottom. It should read something like:
3494 admin     1808 S    pppd -c ppp0.1 -i ptm0.1 -u myusername@qwest.net -p **

The myusername@qwest.net is your username.

Step 5:

cat proc/3494/cmdline 

Next you’ll need to analyze the process ID further, take special note of the preceding number, in this example its 3494. Type in the console:

pppd-cppp0.1-iptm0.1-umyusername@qwest.net-pjlFrVNtRMtU=-f0-D0-n1-L0-X120 >

The password portion of this is encoded, the tricky part here is identifying it. We know the that this is a concatenated line by gauging from the previous line. The password portion should be between -p  and -.  In this example, the encoded password is:

jlFrVNtRMtU=

Step 6:

This password is encoded in base64, thanks to the leg work Make a new tab or new terminal window, and type:

echo "jlFrVNtRMtU=" | base64 --decode

It should spit back something like:

ac7gkDnUmac-pro:~ user$

The ac7gkDnU will be your PPP password. Congrats! You’re now ready to enable transparent bridge mode on your router.

Article posted by blog@greggant.com

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PLDT Fibr ONU AN5506-04-FA Backdoor Exploit

In the late year of 2016 there was a house to house PLDT agent promoting and advertising for the PLDT Home Fibr in our town particularly on my sister area, I was in my sister's resident that time and the PLDT Home Fibr promoter belling the gate of my sister house while I were there.  I open up the gate, the PLDT Home Fibr advertiser introduces me their Fiber Internet broadband product that they are having the limited promo  for FREE installation including the WiFi once you switch from other ISP's or waived the installation fees plus the device if your are a new subscriber on the monthly billing. I recommend and encourages my sister to get the offer of the PLDT Home Fibr as it is very late  this kind of stuff for my motherland whereas in other developed countries like Singapore or Malaysia they are far from us when it comes to technology.

I noticed the PLDT Home Fibr whenever your monthly internet bills overdue they will automatically disallow you from accessing the internet totally, your PLDT Fiber ONU is blocked and you can never ever enjoy surfing the net unless you have to pay your outstanding fees. Unlike Globe and Smart wireless internet broadband even if you device is banned from accessing the net still you can trick it with the vpn apps. I was thinking perhaps the PLDT Home Fibr is just like the old legacy SmartBro Canopy wireless internet that I have enjoyed the FREE internet for a very very long period time untill the WiMAX replace it.

I have stayed in my sister house during the weekends and the internet connection was interrupted due to late monthly bills payment. So i try to tweak with the old ways like the wireless internet SmartBro Canopy  and it works and my sister said how come you have the internet and we do not have? I said this is just temporary internet connection while your PLDT account is blocked.

While I was inside the PLDT Home Fibr ONU $hell I tour around and see what I have to see looking for stuffs that is interesting while hopping by hops into some other PLDT subscriber's ONU $hell. I find it very interesting, just imagine you can get into the PLDT ONU fiber device and hops by hops from one onto the other ONU device and can copy paste the inside or wipe out the entire filesystem of the ONU's.

The backdoor of PLDT Home Fibr ONU devices such as Fiberhome AN5506-04-F, AN5506-04-FA/T is very special that I do not want to disclosed on this blog. These three Fiberhome AN5506-04-XX series of the PLDT Home Fibr ONU device is until now widely open as of the time I am writing I have tested and proven and not have been yet close for sure the PLDT Tech team will not close the backdoor where they used to enter.

I write this issue because I want to differ the comment on kbeflo's gist.github by chudyvf that.

for those still have rp2627, change iptables directly.

iptables -R INPUT 1 -p TCP --dport 7547 -j REJECT --reject-with tcp-reset
iptables -I INPUT 2 -i lo -p TCP --dport 443 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I INPUT 3 -i br0 -p TCP --dport 23 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I INPUT 4 ! -i br0 -p TCP --dport 443 -j REJECT --reject-with tcp-reset
iptables -I INPUT 5 ! -i br0 -p TCP --dport 23 -j REJECT --reject-with tcp-reset

He commented or suggested, that the PLDT Home Fibr ONU devices aka Fiberhome AN5506-04-FA/T and AN5506-04-F to be safe from the PLDT ONU firmware updates RP2631, it is highly recommended that the above mentioned iptables command is a must for us to redo the iptables. On my own opinion as I have written and commented on kbeflo's gist.github the PLDT ONU firmware updates can not and will not be prevented from patching the firmware updates regardless of what ports you closed  or iptables you redo. The PLDT can still enter your ONU deivices using the so called BACKDOOR, whether  your are connected to the internet or NOT for as long as you are hook to the PLDT Fiberhome OLT you are bound for the firmware updates patching. As I have said I have been thru that backdoor!

My ultimate recommendation or solution to all the PLDT Home Fibr subscribers that are having or using the Fiberhome ONU devices such as AN5506-04-FA/T and AN5506-04-F is on the hardware side from being forcibly firmware updates to RP2631. But you have to be an electronics hobby, this thing needs basic soldering skill. The solution is to pull up the write-protect pinouts of the NAND flash from the circuit so that whenever there is an updates your ONU devices is protected unless you switch ON the write-protect of the NAND flash pinouts.

Your thoughts and comments are welcome, to be true I don't trust the PLDT Home Fibr ONU's better give me a fiber media converter I will provide my own wireless router access point, I rather have favor on OpenWRT, DD-Wrt or Tomato.

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PLDT Fiberhome ONU AN5506-04-FA RP2627 Update Failed

Just last month  I have been reading at kbeflo's gist.github again so many Netizen shouting about their PLDT Fiberhome AN5506-04-FA/T ONU being remotely updated by the country's Giant Telco ISP. It was me who first disclosed on this blog the PLDT "fiberhomesuperadmin " account privilege to access the PLDT Fibr ONU Super Admin and later on TipidPC.com who gave the password sfuhgu that everybody's enjoyed the tweaking and manipulating of their own ONU device. Now the sadness and sorrow came again to all the PLDT Fibr Subscriber because of the so called firmware updates from RP2627 to RP2631 that gives another headache, I know for Shifu out there like you it won't be as hard for you to locate the script even without any use of web developer tools but to a newbie like me will be painful looking for the code.

I have been enjoying my PLDT Fiberhome ONU AN5506-04-FA RP2627 without any patches and still intact until today 6pm my little Princess complaining that her mini iPad is not working anymore until I notice that the internet connection was interrupted. There was no signs that the red LEDs turns ON on the PLDT ONU until I login and see to it if the WAN connection really went down. On the Status Main Menu my PLDT ONU AN5506-04-FA is still intact and NOT being updated to RP2631 but when I check on my BroadBand settings, my ONU WAN Type is now being change from INTERNET to TR069_INTERNET. On my ONU VLANID is still the same as it is 1030 and the priority is still 0 but what happen to my WAN connection type from Route mode is no longer possible to scroll it to Bridge mode. What the F*ck, go and eat your PLDT Fiberhome ONU device. Yeah you are right! now you glued it on the Web User Interface, do you think that I won't be possible on the CLI and what about the web developer tools it can be unhide, PITY on your Graphical Interface.

This is another disaster to the PLDT Fibr Subscriber who owns this kind of ONU Fiberhome AN5506-04-FA/T, on kbeflo's at gist.github thread someone is already asking for RP2627 firmware I don't know if they will be able to upload the firmware onto the ONU device if they have it on their hand. On this Blog someone also commented and ask me the RP2627 firmware, I can upload it to them I have the list of the AN5506-04-FA frimware from RP2610 to RP2627. I have written on this Blog that best and easy way to backup the AN5506-04-FA firmware on Windows machine is via winSCP you can just click and drag the files.

I will leave it as it is today until the PLDT Engineering Technical Team done their patches and firmware updates remotely to all the PLDT Fiberhome ONU devices, soon to follow the post on how to undo the PLDT Fiberhome ONU AN5506-04-FA/T from RP2631 to RP2627 again. I know its hurts really when you are really inlove to your ONU device firmware RP2627 and suddenly someone just took it away without any prior notice. If possible I will write a tutorial on how to update the AN5506-04-FA/T frimware from RP2627 to RP2631 or vice versa from RP2631 to RP2627.

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PLDT HOME Fibr ONU Vulnerable

So long I have no any article posted on my blog a busy man like me who has two angel keeps on following on me is so difficult to be a freeman again to hang on the net for long hours. I have stumbled upon around hopping by hop, sniffing on what is going on to the PLDT HOME Fibr Optical Network Unit after I disclosed the credentials of the  "admin account unavailable" to make available it seems like smell fishy going around after they mass update the Fiberhome AN5506-04-XXX  recently.

I still went on and try to see if this is really happening by accident or by chance that the PLDT HOME Fibr subscriber ONT device information page is been there exposed to the public network and can be seen without any authentications needed, you do not need the PLDT FiberhomeSuperAdmin account or the adminpldt to open it. Upon scanning is going thru I found PLDT Fiberhome AN5506-04-F software version RP2658 is already naked to the internet, in one subnet I found one and in another subnet I found two. I am not sure if these people who owns the said AN5506-04-F is aware of it, I guess they are also trying to open their device serial communication port to gain the access of the PLDT HOME Fibr "admin account unavailable" to make it available because its on trending today on the Netizen forum that the adminplt full access is back again since the first week of September 2018.

To ordinary people like me if my phone number is being publicize to the whole world it is worthless what they gonna do with that telephone number do they can make money with it? Are you going to jail? Oh I see, there you are, YES you can go to jail if  your  residential landline identity will be used for any illegal activity masking it to the other ONU/ONT as if it is YOU will pretend to be the DOER, your phone line identity number can be spoof to the other PLDT ONU/ONT such as to any AN5506-XX-XXX for as long as the device is hook to the PLDT network it will work and can make the CALL. You knew it right you are already diving into their palace.

Enough for the slides, I intentionally blurred those information on the screenshot for the security reason. If you wish to obtain one of those above feel free to swim to the PLDT HOME Fibr networks.

I do not know if this is a sabotage of the co-employees of the PLDT company who demanded for regular position because of their long history contractualization its for another topic. As you have witnessed its not only the mac addresses of the connected client that is being compromised but also the telephone number. I heard about HTTP injection how true is it, and what about the DNS hijacking? Well lets take it to another story when we have more time to write. But wait a minute we are not done yet, am I excuse to this PLDT HOME Fibr ONU/ONT exploitation? Lets take a walk thru it WANs will investigate if my Fiberhome AN5506-04-FA software version RP2627 is also affected by this so called nakedness.

By using the same procedure sniffing on the WAN side of the ONU/ONT from the public network there is no difference with the above mention PLDT Fiberhome ONU AN5506-04-F software version RP2658, the subscriber information are always compromise and its not guaranteed that you are on safe hand. If this is not a sabotage then there is another implication of web page disclosure to everybody on the net. Perhaps the Engineering Technical Team of the PLDT company is tired of being requested to task the switching of the subscriber ONU from Routing Mode to Bridge Mode from enabling it to disabling it more over specially when you demand and request to waive the adminpldt "admin account unavailable" to be available. Perhaps this is also to lure the client of the PLDT HOME Fibr that indicating that if the AN5506-04-XXX series ONU is on routing mode its mode prone to exploits unlike if it is on bridge mode it will appear to more safer. In addition, Yes that is more favorable to the PLDT as a whole it will lessen their headache not only that but  rather a discounted bandwidth for every internet fiber broadband subscriber allocated speed.

You said it right, including me, see that! Take a look at it closer, zoom it, that is my homephone line identity number. You can dial it from anywhere, "your monthly bill is our priority we do not care about your security whether you like it or not, its only PLDT and GLOBE where you can choose from". I heard it right Sir!

Worst from what you are expecting, you can swallow your PLDT "fiberhomesuperadmin" account now its not needed, the FTP Server will not ask you that to login and it can be open from any of your favorite browser, begging the "waiver" for obtaining the permission of the adminpldt "admin account unavailable" to be granted is no longer required the FTP Server will not ask for username and password anymore. Now you are thinking if you want to be in Bridge Mode that will lock you down to your throat squeezing your allotted bandwidth as possible to 30% that you can use out of your 100% speed limit. Or stick on Routing Mode make your AN5506-04-XXX series be the public WiFi access point of your neighbor give them a FREE access of your internet without your knowing? But then what solution can I offer to my reader regarding on this matter that will hamper you as a subscriber of the PLDT HOME Fiber internet broadband.

Answer, I can not provide any either solution or suggestion  unless you are the NTC  to tell this Giant Telco to fix their bugs before those man hatted will misused leak information above mention.

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Any Router Should Work with Unifi ONU/BTU Modem

Method to use any router with unifi (IPTV-compatible) for ZTE ZXDSL 931Dll (VDSL Modem)

Actually this concept is the same with It’s for vdsl modem brand Huawei HG655a. But, my tutorial is for vdsl modem ZTE ZXDSL 931Dll.

Unifi Standard Installation

500 = vlan data (internet)
600 = vlan IPTV

Problem

1. I want to use DD-WRT in my Dlink DIR-615
2. Using DD-WRT, we can not use IPTV anymore.

Solution

1. Plug IPTV cable to ZTE ZXDSL 931Dll (VDSL Modem)
2. Put static IP 192.168.1.2 and subnet 255.255.255.0 in your PC
3. Plug the cable to LAN2 port of ZTE ZXDSL 931Dll
4. Open browser and go to

username: admin
password: hs5711Bbvl

5. Go to Network -> WAN -> Port Binding

Go to Bridge_PTM_500_0 at the dropdown list. Tick LAN4. Click submit.

6. Go to Network -> WAN -> VLAN Trunk

Choose LAN1 at the dropdown list.
Choose 2 or 0 for Supported VLAN number. Dont choose 600 for VLAN ID.

Choose 600 at the PVID dropdown list
Click Submit.

7. Go to Network -> WAN -> VLAN Trunk. You can choose method 7a or method 7b. I recommend you follow step 7a because it is easier and less work to do.

Method 7 a) Added this Method for those router that are not capable on VLAN-tagging.

Even though you have a VLAN tagging capable router, you do not have to tag your WAN port with VLAN if you use this method. This works for all routers including not-VLAN-tagging capable router like Streamyx router. Thank to the this blog. You just setup normal PPPoE in your router.

Choose LAN4 at the dropdown list.
Tick Enable VLAN Trunk
First Supported VLAN number, insert value 0.
For PVID, choose 500.
Click Submit.

Method 7 b)

This method is not working with the routers that does not have VLAN tagging capability. This only works for VLAN tagging capable router. You have to tag VLAN500 and setup PPPoE in your router. That’s why i cross it.

Choose LAN4 at the dropdown list.
Tick Enable VLAN Trunk
First Supported VLAN number, insert value 1.
For VLAN ID1, choose 500.
Click Submit.

8. Plug STB cable to LAN1 port of ZTE, After that Dlink DIR615 cable to LAN4 ZTE. After that reboot all the equipment.

After that, you can use any router with your unifi. If you want to use DD-WRT firmware you can follow this tutorial, _guide.php (Ignore VLAN tagging step if you use method 7a).

All images posted in this article and ideas are not mine it belongs to azim references found at the following sites.

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Importing Your Blog Into Facebook

Facebook has made the impact over the worlds today, can be gauged by the fact that President Obama himself chose to visit the social networking site's headquarters recently. With more than 500 million regular users and counting, Facebook is one of the biggest platforms to share your views with a worldwide audience. What better way to promote your personal blog, than sharing its posts on Facebook. That way, all of your friends can read your latest blog posts, as and when they are published.

Two of the most powerful features of the Facebook website are the 'Share' button and the 'Like' button. Whatever you share, appears directly in the recent news feed of all your friends. Instantly your thoughts, links, videos or any kind of shared content can reach hundreds of people. When any one of them 'Likes' what you've shared, the post further appears in the news feed of his or her connected friends.

Thus the 'Like' button triggers an avalanche effect which multiplies the number of people who see and may read your post. That's why, importing your blog into Facebook makes abundant sense and you should know how it's done. Once you have imported the blog, you don't need to individually share every post. The posts that you publish thereafter will automatically appear on Facebook as you publish them. In the following lines, I will guide you through the procedure of importing your blog posts to Facebook automatically.

How to Import your Blog Entries into Facebook?

The facility to import blogs into Facebook and automatically share posts has been made available through an application called 'Notes'. In case you haven't used it already, it's an exclusive Facebook application that lets you share your thoughts and publish them in a plain note form. It's a great application to share insights, thoughts and excerpts from texts which you like. This Note application has a built in function to share your blog post by importing them via an RSS feed link. Here's how to go about it.

Type 'Notes' in the search box provided at the top of your Facebook home page. Go to the Notes application. On the left hand side, you will see a link called 'Edit Settings'. Click on it and a new page will open with a box where you must enter the RSS feed link of your blog. Once you have copy-pasted that RSS link from your blog homepage, hit the 'Import Blog' button and your job is done. The RSS feed will automatically provide the link of any new posts you publish on your blog, which will then be visible on Facebook news feed as entries in the 'Notes' application. Your previous posts will also be made visible as notes.

If you still have any doubts regarding import of your blog into Facebook, refer to the help section of the social networking site, which has a detailed FAQ section regarding the same, that should take care of any doubts you might have. As mentioned before, it's essential that you enter the RSS link of your blog in the Notes application settings to have your posts shared on Facebook. It saves you the hassle of having to post every one of your post links whenever you have blogged. The integration of blogs into Facebook and linking of Twitter account with the Facebook can make your life simpler. Connect your blog with Facebook and watch the number of your blog followers soaring.

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Share My Top 10 iPhone Apps

About 60,000 Apple iPhone applications available till date and making the list of top 10 apps, is certainly a daunting task. Some applications are best for users who access social networking sites, while some work great for music lovers. Some work as virtual assistants to photographers and some guide students round the clock to minify their distance to academic propensity. Here is an attempt to enlist the top 10 iPhone apps for one and all.

Top 10 iPhone Apps of All Time

Pandora Radio

This list will be incomplete if Pandora Radio is not included in it. Pandora Radio creates customized radio stations and you can listen to your favorite tracks and singers without changing the radio stations every now and then.

Instapaper

If you frequently visit blog sites then you must have this iPhone application. Instapaper enables you to save the online stories and blogs and you can read them in your free time. To use this iPhone application, you have to register on Instapaper.com and create an account.

AroundMe

AroundMe is a must have application for people who roam a lot. This iPhone application provides you information about important services that are available in your surrounding, which include, coffee shops, petrol stations, bars, banks, restaurants, movie halls and hospitals.

ShoZu

ShoZu is a handy and useful application for those who frequently upload images and videos on the web. With this application you can upload videos and photographs on almost 50 sites at a time. These include, Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, Blogger, Photobucket, WordPress, MySpace and Photoshop.

Jott

This iPhone application transcribes your voice memos into text. All you need to do is simply tap on the record button and start speaking. You can record the voice messages and save them for future use. This application is useful for saving addresses and phone numbers on the go.

Google Mobile App

With this iPhone application you can make a quick and easy search of any data in your iPhone. Whether it's searching for a contact number or finding an address, Google Mobile App scans your mobile and helps you find the required data. This application also supports Google Docs, Gmail, YouTube, Picasa and Blogger.

Tweetie

Tweetie is a must have iPhone application for active users of Twitter. With this iPhone application you can access to more than one Twitter account at a time and perform all the tasks that can be performed on a desktop. You can download this application at $2.99 at your App Store.

Meebo

With this iPhone application you can stay connected to your friends and chat them by instant messaging on Yahoo, MSN, AIM, Gtalk, etc. Using Meebo is a nice way to cut down SMS and you can chat with your friends on the go.

WritingPad

A must have iPhone app for those who send e-mails and need to type text frequently. While using this application all you need to do is drag your finger along the letters and spell out the words. Initially the application is difficult to use, but with gradual use it becomes quite easy to handle.

Facebook

Having a Facebook application is need of the time! With this free iPhone application you can stay online on your Facebook profile and go social all the time. You can chat, check your wall, upload and view photos and do many more things.

Top 10 Apps for Kids

• Mad Libs Lite
• Toddler Teasers: Shapes
• Airport Mania: First Flight Lite
• Freshwater Aquarium
• Sneezies
• Squiggles
• Weetwoo! Kid Videos
• Chuzzle
• Itsy Bitsy Spider
• Old MacDonald

Top 10 Apps for Business

• ClockIn
• eBay Mobile
• Evernote
• iTerminal
• Encamp
• mbPointer
• iBank
• Analytics App
• LinkedIn
• Quickoffice Mobile Office Suite

Top 10 Free iPhone Apps

• iBooks
• GodFinger
• Windows Live Messenger
• Apple Store
• Find My iPhone
• Chop Chop Tennis
• Facebook
• Pandora Radio
• Twitter
• Skype

Top 10 Apps for Students

• BigWords
• iStudiez Pro
• EZ Read
• SimpleMind
• EverNote
• Wikipanion
• Dictionary.com
• myHomework
• PI83 Graphing Calculator
• Chegg

Top 10 Apps for Photographers

• PhotoArtista Oil
• Image Blender
• AutoStitch Panorama
• SketchMe
• Pano
• Photoshop Express
• Pro HDR
• ShakeItPhoto
• Instagram
• Iris Photo Suite

I now wrap up this piece, content, that you have digested some information on the top 10 iPhone apps. So, how about finding the best iPhone application that suits your need and getting it from the App Store... Now!

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How-To Install FreeNAS To USB Drive

FreeNAS is an Open Source Storage Platform based on FreeBSD and supports sharing across Windows, Apple, and UNIX-like systems. It comes with a lot of protocols and services – here are some to mention: CIFS (samba), FTP, NFS, TFTP, AFP, RSYNC, Unison, iSCSI (initiator and target) and UPnP, Software RAID (0,1,5), ZFS, disk encryption, S.M.A.R.T/email monitoring with a WEB configuration interface (from m0n0wall). You can use it to build your own secure network file server to store all your important information on.

FreeNAS can be installed on compact Flash/USB key, hard drive or booted from LiveCD (version 7.x). Personally I like to install it on USB key to keep the software separate from the data on the hard disk. The rest of this article will show you how to do it. At the time of writing the current stable version is 8.0.2. The little graph on the right shown the number of downloads – this is what people download most:

They also have a 32-bit version (FreeNAS-8.0.2-RELEASE-i386.iso) and 64-bit version (FreeNAS-8.0.2-RELEASE-amd64.iso). You should choose 32-bit or 64-bit based on the hardware of the computer you are going to run FreeNAS on:

Download the .iso file from Source Forge and save it to your hard drive, for example in C:\Temp folder.

From here you can do two things:

1. Burn the .iso file to a CD. This will give you a bootable CD from where you can install FreeNAS to a hard drive or USB stick. The older versions (7.x) also had an option to run FreeNAS from the CD without installing it. With version 8.x this option is not available anymore.

2. Extract the embedded version of FreeNAS from the .iso file and write it directly to a USB stick. This is a faster way of getting FreeNAS installed but will not allow you to add additional software later.

In this article we are going to take the second approach. I will provide a separate posting on how to do variant 1 and install Transmission.

Note: As of version 8.0.1-BETA3 the image size increased. The new size requires a 2 GB USB storage device.

Step 1) Extract the FreeNAS image

We need to extract a file from the .iso file. If you already have a tool that can do that go ahead and use it. If not you can install the Daemon Tools Lite which is free for home personal use. Mount the .iso file and extract the FreeNAS_i386_embedded.xz (32-bit version) file. In case you downloaded the 64-bit version the name of the file will be FreeNAS_amd64_embedded.xz. Copy it to your hard disk.

For the rest of the article I will assume we chose the 32-bit version.

The .xz file is a compressed file. Un-compress it and extract FreeNAS_i386_embedded which is the image we have to write to the USB drive.

I use 7-Zip for extracting the files from .xz file. Make sure you use the latest version of 7-Zip. Right-click the FreeNAS_i386_embedded.xz file and choose 7-Zip -> Extract Here. This will extract FreeNAS_i386_embedded file and place it in C:\Temp

Step 2) Prepare the USB key

Plug the USB key in your PC and format the disk as FAT32. Sometimes Windows will not be able to format it (if it was partitioned or formatted with Linux file system for example). In this case you should try a “low-level” format using this tool:

HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool

Step 3) Write the FreeNAS image to USB key

The next step is to download Physdiskwrite from here. It is a ZIP file. Unzip it and copy physdiskwrite.exe and PhysGUI.exe to C:\Temp. Run PhysGUI.exe. It has a graphical interface and will display information about storage devices (hard drives and USB devices:

Remember the Device ID (first column) of your USB stick. Open a command prompt, change the folder to C:\Temp and type:

physdiskwrite -u FreeNAS-i386-embedded

It will list the disks (the same Device ID you got from Physdiskwrite) and will ask you to which of them to write the file. In my case it is drive 1 (type 1 and press)

It will ask you to confirm (press y followed by)

The program will start writing the file and you can see the progress. After it is done you have USB stick with FreeNAS installed on it. To try it reboot your computer and make sure it boots from the USB stick (either change the boot sequence in BIOS or use one of the hot keys during boot to enter the menu where you can select the device to boot from).

Some people are experiencing problems at this step. One suggested solution (thanks Jim) is:

Open a command window as admin (“cmd”)
Type “diskpart” and hit enter.
Type “list disk” and hit enter to find out the number of your drive.
Type “select disk X” (where you replace X with the number of your drive) and hit enter.
Type “clean” and hit enter.

after that go back to your temp folder and then try the process again.

If something goes wrong and you do not get a working FreeNAS on USB stick then try the first method – burn the .ISO file to a CD, boot from the CD and install FreeNAS to USB.

If you decide to go for version 7.x you get bit-torrent client (Transmission). It is missing in 8.0.2 but there are plans to be included in the future versions.

See Roadmap for 8.1

That is all.

Or almost. Probably you could have got the same information elsewhere – in the Google’s age it is hard to be original. Actually some time ago I came across a discussion about whether the blogging was declining. There were several responses in support of this – people were not seeing much sense in re-posting information available in 1000’s other places.

Saying that I would like to thank you for visiting my blog.

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Adding CommentLuv plugin on Blogger

CommentLuv is one of the excellent plugin for wordpress users, which gives excellent linkback activity for every commenter in your blog. Blogger default commenting system is actually secure, but reader interaction is too really significant. So Most of the bloggers are proving their interest to get backlink from the blog commenting. So before publishing post in your blogspot blog, you need to replace the default commenting system. Since blogger launch date, Google did not implement a commenting system. So most of the commenter are starting to comment on the WordPress CommentLuv system. If this plugin installs in blogger your user engagement system becomes full. So today I am starting to enforce this method “How to add CommentLuv plugin for Blogger blogs”.

How to install CommentLuv plugin in WordPress Blogs?

Installation of the Plugin is a very simple process. Just login into WordPress dashboard and then go for Plugin > Add New, and search with keyword “CommentLuv”. Simply click on Install Now and then activate the Plugin. Just adjust the settings in CommentLuv plugin page. That’s it.

How to integrate CommentLuv with Blogger blogspot blogs?

To integrate the CommentLuv plugin into blogger blogs, follow the steps. To do this, we need to make use of third party website.

1. Open http://intensedebate.com site and create an account by clicking on “Signup”.

2. Fill up the form with required details, then submits and click on the activation link from your Email account. Make sure to tick the option “I want to install inteseDebate on my blog or website”.

3. Now login into your IntenseDebate account, then go for Sites > Add BlogSite.

4. Enter the blogspot blog URL in “Step 1: Specify URL”.

5. Now select the Blogger platform “Step 2: Choose Platform” then go to Last step

6. In Step 3: Installation follows the instruction to install this plugin in your blog. Tick mark on “All new posts” (Recommended).

7. Now go to the Blogger dashboard, download your blogger template in “.XML” format from “Backup/Restore”

8. In this step upload the blogger template now by clicking “Choose file” selection. Then click on “Upload file and continue” it.

9. Now you will redirect to below given screen. Just copy the template code.

10. Go to your blogger profile and navigate to Template > Edit html. Select original code of your template by pressing Ctrl + A and replace it with code copied in the above step. This code is not damaging your original template code or anything else. Then “Save template”.

11. Once done, click on the link which says “Configure this IntenseDebate account”. Then click on “Activate” to active the CommentLuv plugin.

Conclusion:

The CommentLuv plugin is top one of the wordpress plugin, which is used by most of the wordpress bloggers to interact with commenters. But in Blogger platform, there is no option to change the default comment system. IntenseDebate.com (This is developed by WordPress team) integrating the CommentLuv system into your blogger blog code. It has spam protection system also. Just follow the above steps to integrate this plugin and enjoy as WordPress plugin.

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