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+Some helpful hints for putting firmware on the Netgear R7000
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+* As of the writing of this, July 2020, the R7000's web interface does not let you downgrade its firmware, or run 3rd party firmware on it.
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+* Older versions of the R7000's firmware do allow you to flash 3rd party firmware.
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+* You can use nrmpflash to downgrade router's firmware, for example R7000-V1.0.3.56_1.1.25.
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+Here is an example set of steps
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+1. Plug in your router, go through the regular stock web interface setup. Note if the router's IP address is now 192.168.1.1 or 10.0.0.1
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+2. Connect computer your computer to LAN1 with an ethernet cable
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+3. At the command prompt on your computer, run:
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+`sudo nmrpflash -v -i YOUR_ADAPTER_NAME -f R7000-V1.0.3.56_1.1.25.chk -t 10000 -T 10000 -A 10.0.0.2 -a 10.0.0.1`
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+* Note 1: The instructions from README.md that tell you how to find YOUR_ADAPTER_NAME.
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+* Note 2: if your router's IP address was 192.168.1.1 then swap out 10.0.0.x with 192.168.1.x for the two IP addresses above
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+4. Right after running the command, power on your router. Your router checks for the nmrpflash server on boot. If all goes well you should see this:
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+```
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+sudo nmrpflash -v -i enp0s25 -f R7000-V1.0.3.56_1.1.25.chk -t 10000 -T 10000 -A 10.0.0.2 -a 10.0.0.1
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+Adding 10.0.0.2 to interface enp0s25.
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+Advertising NMRP server on enp0s25 ... /
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+Received configuration request from ab:cd:ef:12:34:56.
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+Sending configuration: 10.0.0.1/24.
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+Received upload request without filename.
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+Using remote filename 'R7000-V1.0.3.56_1.1.25.chk'.
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+Uploading R7000-V1.0.3.56_1.1.25.chk ... OK
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+Waiting for remote to respond.
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+Received keep-alive request (19).
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+Remote finished. Closing connection.
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+Reboot your device now.
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+```
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+5. Reboot the device. You now have old firwmare, congratulations.
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