The package consists of two command-line utilities to manage the Asus WL500g Premium
router without logging to its admin page.
The main utility is WL500gPControl
is used to ask the status of the connection
(Connected
/Disconnected
), connection parameters (DNS servers
, Local IP
,
Foreign IP
etc, log), and perform connection, disconnection and reconnection.
Other utility - WL500gPStatus
created only to ease integration into xmobar
and return only Connected
or Disconnected
string, enclosed into format
tags (when option -c
is given).
The last argument of these two utilities is a credentials file. It has simple format:
user: <user name>
password: <password>
host: <host name or IP address>
The password should be in plain text, so it is recommended to protect this
file from reading for everyone except you.
If credentials file is not given, than programs will try to use default
credential file, which should be located:
Sometimes paths could be different. To determine the read path to the
default credentials file run WL500gPControl -s
and look at the error string, where
will be sayed where it searches credentials file.