router user access

Hi

I am studding Cisco Systems Networking Academy: First-Year Companion
Guide. Chapter 12 talks about routers and User interface and modes, I
am using Linux FC5, is there a way to access the router my computer is
connected on from the command line?, it is an dsl connection from the
wall to the filter,
from the filter to modem/router and then to the NIC?

if so, how?
I can access it from the web user interface only right now, that's
what my ISP which provided it did the last time I needed some tech
support.

also, can I access the next router in the connection out to WAN? and
how?

thanks

"Gary Wessle" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> I am studding Cisco Systems Networking Academy: First-Year Companion
> Guide. Chapter 12 talks about routers and User interface and modes, I
> am using Linux FC5, is there a way to access the router my computer is
> connected on from the command line?, it is an dsl connection from the
> wall to the filter,
> from the filter to modem/router and then to the NIC?
>
> if so, how?
> I can access it from the web user interface only right now, that's
> what my ISP which provided it did the last time I needed some tech
> support.
>
> also, can I access the next router in the connection out to WAN? and
> how?
>
> thanks

Telnet or SSH to the router from the command line.