Padavan's Custom Firmware

[zainday4]

Thanks for the link but for some reason I can't figure out where the files at.
I see the changelog etc, just not the firmware....
Hopefully it will post soon....curious to see if the new version works with ps3 dlna.

 

[fsatsil]

there are so many choices now! Is the base version similar to the old mini version?

 

[fsatsil]

i meant micro not mini

 

[Madj4ck]

i meant micro not mini

Base = Micro is correct.

I have question, how do you enable the new https feature & install certificate for RT-N56U ?

 

[fsatsil]

i think the https option is under the Administration>Router Control section.

 

[sekta]

How would I go about reducing the buffers on this router to reduce bufferbloat? The default txqueuelen is 1000 isn't it? I want to reduce that. On ISCI netalyzer I had 1200ms uplink until I changed some things and now it's at 260-360 and want to get it even lower.

 

[Evange]

Since QoS is disabled in Padavan's firmware, how do I make sure that my gaming traffic is prioritized over other network traffic like p2p?

 

[fsatsil]

How would I go about reducing the buffers on this router to reduce bufferbloat? The default txqueuelen is 1000 isn't it? I want to reduce that. On ISCI netalyzer I had 1200ms uplink until I changed some things and now it's at 260-360 and want to get it even lower.

Just curious why do you think theres a bufferbloat problem with the router? Also how did you reduce from 1200ms to 260ms?
thanks

 

[romitkin]

Hi,
Is it possible to save the traffic data in the daily traffic monitor? because after a reboot, the data there is reset.
Thanks.

 

[RogerSC]

I was reading that buffer bloat fixes are going into Linux 3.7 version, so just wait, it'll catch up with us eventually *smile*.

 

[sekta]

Just curious why do you think theres a bufferbloat problem with the router? Also how did you reduce from 1200ms to 260ms?
thanks

Last year when I ran Netalyzer on my old gaming machine, my uplink had 1200ms and a few days ago I tested it again on my current machine and it was once again 1200ms. It dropped down to 300 average when I ran TCP Optimizer, reduced NIC transmit buffers from 512 to 16 and changed Duplex from 1000 to 100 full duplex. I did all this before running the test again.

I was reading that buffer bloat fixes are going into Linux 3.7 version, so just wait, it'll catch up with us eventually *smile*.

Yeah I read that there are a lot of fixes coming up but the current method for reducing it for linux routers is to reduce the buffer size. This router has a 1000 packet buffer and I just want to know how to reduce that. There are script options but I don't know what commands will fix it.

 

[Madj4ck]

For anyone interested the new 3.4.3.6-069 build finally has SSL support for the webui

How did you make this work, I tried enabling https under administration but it went back to http

 

[PrivateJoker]

How did you make this work, I tried enabling https under administration but it went back to http

What is the advantage to doing it like that? From the outside the router is protected from WAN via firewall, etc, from the inside if you connect over wifi w/ WPA your connection is encrypted, and if you connect over LAN I thing that is a pretty low risk snooping/attack vector.

If anything, I'm reluctant to put a cert on my router that isn't publicly verifiable and I must force my browser to make an exception for.

Thank you for any feedback as to what I'm missing or inaccurate on, I'd like to understand how this capability works and what advantages it is supposed to have.

 

[vdemarco]

What is the advantage to doing it like that? From the outside the router is protected from WAN via firewall, etc, from the inside if you connect over wifi w/ WPA your connection is encrypted, and if you connect over LAN I thing that is a pretty low risk snooping/attack vector.

If anything, I'm reluctant to put a cert on my router that isn't publicly verifiable and I must force my browser to make an exception for.

Thank you for any feedback as to what I'm missing or inaccurate on, I'd like to understand how this capability works and what advantages it is supposed to have.

I used to have it set up as https, but then decided that it wasn't helping anything either. I came to the same conclusion PrivateJoker (loved that movie btw) did.

https made the page load slower, and i don't think added much security.
My opinion anyhow, would also love to hear what other people thing.

 

[Evange]

Since QoS is disabled in Padavan's firmware, how do I make sure that my gaming traffic is prioritized over other network traffic like p2p?

Anyone? I want to make sure I can have lag free online gaming even when my room mate is torrenting.

 

[PrivateJoker]

Anyone? I want to make sure I can have lag free online gaming even when my room mate is torrenting.

Probably the two best things you could do would be to hardwire your console/PC that you're gaming from and give it direct access to a switched router port, and also go into his torrent client and manually tweak it's UL/DL bandwidth allotments and also max # simultaneous downloads & upload seeds. You can probably even set a preset or two (depending on torrent client) for aggressive bandwidth utilization and a "lite" use profile for when you're gaming.

 

[Madj4ck]

What is the advantage to doing it like that? From the outside the router is protected from WAN via firewall, etc, from the inside if you connect over wifi w/ WPA your connection is encrypted, and if you connect over LAN I thing that is a pretty low risk snooping/attack vector.

If anything, I'm reluctant to put a cert on my router that isn't publicly verifiable and I must force my browser to make an exception for.

Thank you for any feedback as to what I'm missing or inaccurate on, I'd like to understand how this capability works and what advantages it is supposed to have.

Thank you for your reply, I think I will stick with http then

 

[Mat77]

Probably the two best things you could do would be to hardwire your console/PC that you're gaming from and give it direct access to a switched router port, and also go into his torrent client and manually tweak it's UL/DL bandwidth allotments and also max # simultaneous downloads & upload seeds. You can probably even set a preset or two (depending on torrent client) for aggressive bandwidth utilization and a "lite" use profile for when you're gaming.

what do you mean with switched Router port?

 

[Mat77]

Yeah I read that there are a lot of fixes coming up but the current method for reducing it for linux routers is to reduce the buffer size. This router has a 1000 packet buffer and I just want to know how to reduce that. There are script options but I don't know what commands will fix it.

I want to know the same

 

[RogerSC]

Last year when I ran Netalyzer on my old gaming machine, my uplink had 1200ms and a few days ago I tested it again on my current machine and it was once again 1200ms. It dropped down to 300 average when I ran TCP Optimizer, reduced NIC transmit buffers from 512 to 16 and changed Duplex from 1000 to 100 full duplex. I did all this before running the test again.

I read that there are a lot of fixes coming up but the current method for reducing it for linux routers is to reduce the buffer size. This router has a 1000 packet buffer and I just want to know how to reduce that. There are script options but I don't know what commands will fix it.

Okay, here's one that I ran into that people seem to believe works to reduce bufferbloat. The rt-n66u sets txqueuelen up at 1000, and you can set that lower and play with this value by using this example command:

ifconfig eth0 txqueuelen 10

This is per-interface, can be done for eth0, eth1, and eth2, I believe. It is something to try.

You can display the current value with this:

ifconfig eth0

You should be able to put your command line into the "init-start" script, when you've determined the value that you want to use. Use some care when reducing this, as I'm sure that there is a minimum value where things may just fall apart, you don't want to be below that, and there may be dynamic effects that might cause that minimum value to change. So I'd just set a reasonable value, and see how it goes, maybe test with netalyzr and see what's been gained before changing it again.