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Post by agvyvyan » Sat Feb 16, 2008 2:48 pm

Should Router Stats Logger work under Windows XP with a Linksys WAG200G with Firmware 1.01.06, please? Including for tweaking the SNR margin threshold. I am not sure if Telnet works on this piece of kit (as it did on my ancient Inventel DW-B 200).

I loaded MSWINSCK.OCX to my Windows, System folder and registered it as instructed.

I also loaded and ran the VB6 runtime vbrun60sp5.exe installation routine.

But I still get the same "Failed to load control ‘NeoDNS’ from ." as Cracken above when I try to run it.

Sorry if I have missed out on something obvious. Any recommendations, please?
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Post by mstombs » Sat Feb 16, 2008 4:01 pm

The router stats program does work under XP...

I don't think the WAG200G has Telnet in standard firmware (there may be a debug method of turning it on?) but there is at least one 3rd party rebuild of the Linksys firmware that does have Telnet - search for "Woytekm".

If Telnet enabled the WAG200G should work with the router stats program (Ti AR7 adsl chip) BUT I don't think it has ability to directly tweak the "Target SNR margin" which some other chipset do.
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Post by studioeng » Wed Apr 02, 2008 10:18 am

Can't see anything here about Vista
(I know; i know; I said I hated it and would NEVER use it ... I'm at work, I have no choice :()

I have been running RUC today okay, but I can't run the RouterStats; I get the same error "Failed to load control ‘NeoDNS’ from ....". I'm assuming it's not Vista compatible just yet!?
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Post by Neo » Wed Apr 02, 2008 12:57 pm

See viewtopic.php?p=23971#23971 ;)

Making apps Vista compatible can be a bit of a pain - it's possible the older Winsock control doesn't want to play ball in Vista...
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Post by studioeng » Wed Apr 02, 2008 12:59 pm

Yeah I read through it; I already had VB6 runtimes installed and I used RUC just before it, and just now with v1.2.5; so must be Vista. I'll just have to try it when I get home with my tried and tested Win XP machine :D

Edit: *SLAPS HAND* Okay I just set it to run in Windows XP SP2 compatibility mode and ran as Administrator; it now works ... :roll: (such an idiot!)
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Post by studioeng » Wed Apr 02, 2008 1:36 pm

I've probably missed this but I've looked through the util. Are you able to view/log down/up usage with the RouterStatsLogger ?? Is it possible to add it if not; so you can keep tabs on the global down/up usage from the router ??
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Post by mstombs » Wed Apr 02, 2008 1:47 pm

Are you using the Routerstats logger remotely via Telnet? I'm not sure I've tried that recently (restricting to one fixed work IP is safe?). If so then I guess anything that can be obtained via Telnet could be added to the tool? Maybe useful info from "cat /proc/net/dev" for example...
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Post by studioeng » Wed Apr 02, 2008 2:21 pm

I wasn't aware that you could connect RouterStatsLogger other than Telnet :?

with "cat /proc/net/dev" there is quite a lot of info for all the interfaces and the transmit/receive stats:

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Inter-|   Receive                                                |  Transmit
 face |bytes    packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes    packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
    lo:    9026      37    0    0    0     0          0         0     9026      37    0    0    0     0       0          0
  eth0:3737978468 34953014    0    0    0     0          0         0 542490825 35350176    0    0    0     0       0          0
  eth1:3737978468 34953014    0    0    0     0          0         0 542490825 35350176    0    0    0     0       0          0
  eth2:3737978468 34953014    0    0    0     0          0         0 542490825 35350176    0    0    0     0       0          0
  eth3:3737978468 34953014    0    0    0     0          0         0 542490825 35350176    0    0    0     0       0          0
   br0:3737977142 34953006    0    0    0     0          0         0 542490825 35350176    0    0    0     0       0          0
   br1: 1571166   10322    0    0    0     0          0         0 11235640   12141    0    0    0     0       0          0
   br2:       0       0    0    0    0     0          0         0        0       0    0    0    0     0       0          0
  usb0:       0       0    0    0    0     0          0         0        0       0    0    0    0     0       0          0
 wlan0: 1428730   10322    0    0    0     0          0         0 11235640   12141    0    0    0     0       0          0
  ppp0:47075262   49765    0    0    0     0          0         0  4405109   26991    0    0    0     0       0          0
I'm using NetMeter on my all my machines at the moment; but it would be far easier to get the stats directly from the router, then there's no guess work involved :)
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Post by mstombs » Wed Apr 02, 2008 3:08 pm

Routerstats uses Telnet, and could use web (maybe only the ruc does that?).

Not sure those stats are very useful, and not sure where ipaccount stores data if enabled. And on ram restricted routrs ipaccount and snmp are recommended to be turned off.

In this version of Linux (at least) there is a problem with byte counters looping due to the 32 bit = 4 GigaByte unsigned integer limit. I have read this can't be fixed in the kernel as it would break too many things. So any monitoring program needs to notice when numbers 'roll over' and add 4 Gig each time. I have noticed this issue in the web screen connection stats that probably have the same source. I guess there was a time when 4Gigabyte traffic was a future dream?
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Post by studioeng » Wed Apr 02, 2008 4:30 pm

I wonder if that is why my router bottles every once in a while; cause it's reaches the 4GB limit!? :? If that was the case it would explain it. Is there any better way of getting the stats from the router?
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Post by mstombs » Wed Apr 02, 2008 6:22 pm

There is no problem I know of with the stats looping, - you can download more than a DVD's worth overnight (Debian distro of course!).
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Post by Shotokan101 » Wed Apr 02, 2008 6:23 pm

mstombs wrote:There is no problem I know of with the stats looping, - you can download more than a DVD's worth overnight (Debian disto of course!).
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Post by Neo » Wed Apr 02, 2008 7:31 pm

studioeng wrote:I've probably missed this but I've looked through the util. Are you able to view/log down/up usage with the RouterStatsLogger ?? Is it possible to add it if not; so you can keep tabs on the global down/up usage from the router ??
Monitoring bandwidth falls outside the RSL original remit which focused on the ADSL stats - the RSL is more about monitoring your ADSL connection and trying to tweak the SNR etc ;)

Having said that, it wouldn't be too difficult to add some simple bandwidth monitoring to the RSL :)
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Post by studioeng » Wed Apr 02, 2008 10:14 pm

I can understand that perfectly. Where would we be without innovations and enhancements :D Just plain and simple sounds great :) Anything would be better than what's there now :D Hmmm ... a DVD... thats about 12 episodes of Stargate Atlantis or Lost :D
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Post by Neo » Fri May 09, 2008 10:20 pm

Version 1.0.23 is now available with bandwidth monitoring :)

Please note that the daily totals (and subsequently weekly and monthly totals) will only be accurate if the bandwidth monitoring is run regularly - ideally daily ;)
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