As a proud recent new (-ish) of a couple of Alcatel/Thomson SpeedTouch routers, I wanted to ask if anyone has links to good sites, articles, documents and other resources about these sophisticated devices. I've downloaded some fairly useless mfr documentation that seems to have been generated by a computer program and which moronically goes through all the CLI commands one by one and adds pretty much nothing.
I've also got pretty good at bricking these devices and had hours of fun getting killed by their IE7-specific web config bug.
I decided that before I start to use one in earnest for any real projects I would write a program to configure one as doing it by hand is way too scary given the possibility for mistakes and the difficulty of getting an overview of the state of the thing, as the web UI seems pretty useless, although to its credit, for the non-technical home user it is safe, reassuring and non-cluttered and they can't wreck anything with it.
I decided that a way to start might be to write something to generate a config file for the ST which can just be uploaded. Writing something to do the reverse, to generate a summary report from a config file is harder.
