[TriLUG] OT: WRT54G loosing wired connections

[Christopher L Merrill]

Thanks for all the replies.  I forgot to mention that I've been
running this box for about 6 months.  Everything was fine until
the past few weeks.  I'm not sure if maybe my usage pattern has
changed - resulting in more connections.  I doubt it, though.

I'll look for the max ports setting and increase it.  If that
doesn't remedy the problem, then I guess I'll have to decide of the
hassle of resetting it every few weeks is worse than the time
required for the firmware upgrade and resulting configuration
changes....


Thanks!
C

OlsonE at aosa.army.mil wrote:
> ...same issues with my WRT54GS v2. I ended up switching to DD-WRT v24-r2
> (whatever the latest non-beta is) ....and it works great! 
> 
> I definitely recommend setting the max number of ports open to something
> higher than the default. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> Behalf Of John Wheeler
> Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 5:43 AM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OT: WRT54G loosing wired connections
> 
> My WRT54G with stock firmware would get bogged when under heavy loads of
> specific types of traffic. Mostly torrents with small piece sizes.  
> Apparently is wasn't releasing resources quickly enough and some buffer
> would get full. There was no option to help negate this. Often the
> trouble wouldn't bring the device down but just cause it to draaaaag
> until I rebooted it manually.
> 
> I have had great success with an alternative firmware on multiple
> WRT54G's (v3 & v4) as well as other Broadcom based routers.
> 
> DD-WRT:
> http://dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv2/ddwrt.php
> 
> If you have time to play a little it's great. Opens up  plenty of
> interesting possibilities.
> 
> -John
> 
> On Apr 15, 2007, at 11:19 PM, Christopher L Merrill wrote:
> 
>> The firmware version is 1.01.0.  It is unmodified by me.
>>
>> Twice in the past 2-3 weeks, computers on the wired connections have 
>> become severely network "disadvantaged".  They don't seem to looks the
> 
>> connection entirely...but are horrendously slow.  Like 300 baud slow.
>>
>> Both times, the wireless operation was fine.  Two different computers 
>> using different cables to different ports were affected.
>> In both instances, rebooting the unit brought instantaneous relief.
>>
>> Anyone seen this?  My google-fu is bringing me no joy  :(
>>

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