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Zyxel firmware bin or rom2/9/2023 ![]() ![]() The config.rom, that can be downloaded by users for backup, was encrypted a few revisions back.SVN folders with names and email addresses of Zyxel engineers.Partial remains from other systems: an NsaRecoveryAngel account, probably from Zyxel’s NAS product, and a Telenor recovery account.A watchdog cron reboots every 5 minutes when stuff has crashed.Code commented out without explanation.The code contains multiple “FIXME” comments.The boot log contains warnings about non-existing commands.IMHO Zyxel’s hardware is quite ok, but the software tells a tale of tight deadlines and churn in the dev team. This process does a periodic check with my ISP and will possibly download new firmware. In my init.sh script, I’ll ensure to kill zytr069main. Extra profit: I only have to re-plug my USB stick to test changes to my script. If the USB disk contains an init.sh file, it is executed. This is run every time a USB disk is inserted. My modified rcS script only copies a file to /etc/automount/automount.d/auto-usb-run.sh. ![]() So it’s best to minize modifications to the system and put most of it on a USB memory stick. ![]() Warning: a syntax error will brick my system. ![]()
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