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Haha no way I did exactly the same thing on a TP-Link router https://blog.mclemon.org/debugging-a-tp-link-wr741nd-using-s...

Except I didn’t know the password and got distracted by something else before I got round to fiddling with it.

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I needed to get the PPPoE account off a router once (My boss didn't remember the router's admin password), so I connected the WAN port to my laptop and captured the PPPoE packets. I might have had to use a second ethernet port (USB hub with eth port) to allow the old router to talk to the telcom modem. Just bridge the two ports and capture the traffic.

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