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Post by willshep » Wed Mar 28, 2007 9:54 pm

Firstly, sorry dad. I've been bad I know and sure enough I'm not going to do it again. :P

I must say that I did get the right bootloader and I've got two modems so it's no massive deal - I know it must be tiresome when people don't take precautions - I'd already flashed one of my routers and it runs perfectly well so i got a little reckless didn't I!

I'm trying to get the people at PlusCom to send me the firmware image - PCApp works fine with my lovely brick so I guess it's a case of waiting until i get a working firmware.

Will post the details asap,

Thanks, Will.
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Post by willshep » Wed Mar 28, 2007 11:11 pm

Update - it wasn't actually bricked. It all worked fine when I did a proper factory reset. Now this router works fine too.

So thanks all

Any chance of SNMP?

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Post by thechief » Thu Mar 29, 2007 7:48 am

I am glad to hear that it is ok.:)

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SNMP is there if you have a wireless router. Otherwise, it won't work (insufficient RAM on the non-wireless routers).
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Post by willshep » Thu Mar 29, 2007 8:59 am

I get the feeling that from a stability point of view especially with p2p use and having more than one person on a network, it would have been smarter to get a wireless router with 4 ports even if I were not to actually use the wireless side - but simply for the extra RAM.

Anyway, if it helps at all - both the ADDON and PLUSCOM 4 port wired routers work perfectly with your firmware.

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Post by thechief » Thu Mar 29, 2007 9:51 am

willshep wrote:I get the feeling that from a stability point of view especially with p2p use and having more than one person on a network, it would have been smarter to get a wireless router with 4 ports even if I were not to actually use the wireless side - but simply for the extra RAM.
Indeed. One manufacturer is soon going to release 4-port non-wireless routers with the extra RAM. But I don't think I am allowed to say any more than that at the moment. ;)
willshep wrote:Anyway, if it helps at all - both the ADDON and PLUSCOM 4 port wired routers work perfectly with your firmware.
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Thanks. I am not aware of this Pluscom router. What are its specs?
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Post by willshep » Thu Mar 29, 2007 10:07 am

Maybe I'll try to see if I can exchange it for a wireless one. I'll have to send it back with your firmware on it though (not having backed up the orginal firmware - if only someone had warned me...)

Will send env later on it's PSP boot, 4 port+1 usb, ADSL2/2+ Actually it's on ebay - Pluscom's website is not great... Pluscom.cn, but it's cheap and it works...

Going off topic, I've had a look for more detailed info on IP Accounting - it'd be useful if somehow the router could log usage by IP - I've turned it on but nothing shows up - does it need a reboot - I've searched the forum but not found answers.

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Post by studioeng » Thu Mar 29, 2007 10:13 am

willshep wrote:(not having backed up the orginal firmware - if only someone had warned me...)
:lol: you can't be serious :P
willshep wrote:Going off topic, I've had a look for more detailed info on IP Accounting - it'd be useful if somehow the router could log usage by IP - I've turned it on but nothing shows up - does it need a reboot - I've searched the forum but not found answers.
Yes I beleive the router requires a reboot in order for the IP Accounting to start working.
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Post by thechief » Thu Mar 29, 2007 10:16 am

It shouldn't need a reboot, but you could try, since it does some IPTABLES stuff. It does log usage by (LAN) IP addresses.

Be warned - it is a memory hog that would probably bring your RAM-challenged router to its knees (especially if you also do P2P stuff). But there is no harm trying. You can always disable it if it starts causing problems.
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Post by willshep » Thu Mar 29, 2007 10:21 am

Right well that's the other thing I suppose - what else can I turn off to free up the most amount of ram - I don't need any features really - I don't use UPnP and don't really need to use IPaccounting or USB. Any linux files that could be edited to stop certain services running? Really wish I'd bought a wireless one now!

The pluscom doesn't have any more RAM than the ADDON, I think the chip might be slightly faster though - but according to your diags it sees about 600k free max just like the ADDON.
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Post by thechief » Thu Mar 29, 2007 10:27 am

600k free should be more than enough, so I don't foresee a problem there. What is the memory information reported in the system diagnostics?
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Post by willshep » Thu Mar 29, 2007 10:56 am

Ok - I'm not at home at the moment but as I remember if i'm just connected to the network not browsing - not even connected to WAN then it's about 600k. When using p2p with reduced connection limits it goes down less than 100k I think - only reason I ask is that it has in the past (pre-RT FW) crashed presumably due to low memory. It hasn't crashed yet and it's downloading at the moment - i'm at work and use CGIProxy to get past Websense so it's obviously still working. I just wonder what will happen when my flatmates and I all start downloading again...

I don't suppose turning off DHCP is any good - all PCs have static IPs anyway?
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Post by willshep » Mon Apr 02, 2007 10:44 am

Ok router has been up for ages now, when using P2P I can't really expect to use the router's web interface, however, the router doesn't crash, and there is no performance problem either - it's just that i can't get into the web interface - I have found closing down DHT can sometimes help - but then that can affect p2p performance.

So yea, basically, great firmware, good job, thanks.

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Post by thechief » Mon Apr 02, 2007 8:49 pm

Thanks :). If you don't need the USB driver, then you can disable the loading of the USB driver

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usb_disable.sh
Then restart the router. This should fre up about 60kb of RAM.
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