[TUTORIAL] Native Transmission on asuswrt routers through optware

nicholas · Oct 28, 2013

TeHashX said:
You can't have entware and optware in the same time, all ipk should be in the same partition.

Sent from my HTC One S

So even if a have transmission on another partition of the external drive and pyload on the another it will not work

TeHashX · Oct 28, 2013

nicholas said:
So even if a have transmission on another partition of the external drive and pyload on the another it will not work

Nope

Sent from my HTC One S

nicholas · Oct 28, 2013

TeHashX said:
Nope

Sent from my HTC One S

Ok TeHashX thanks for all your help

pavlfz · Nov 16, 2013

port forwarding

Hi, I'm a bit of a newbie with all this and am having trouble forwarding ports. I wonder if anyone can help? My problem here is that I'm using the asus firmware for an n55u, for which there isn't a custom firmware available. This means I can't follow the forwarding instructions given a few pages back. I'm quite stuck as to what to do. Are there some lines I can put into putty to open ports? I've tried to open 51413 on the router but it doesn't seem to work. The strange thing is that sometimes the port seems to be open, for no apparent reason, and then others not. I'm also using remote transmission.

I've tried forwarding from the router, but I'm not sure it's happy being forwarded to itself??? If I change the port in the remote gui to one that I think is open would that work? Sorry, I'm a bit clueless here!

TeHashX · Nov 16, 2013

pavlfz said:
Hi, I'm a bit of a newbie with all this and am having trouble forwarding ports. I wonder if anyone can help? My problem here is that I'm using the asus firmware for an n55u, for which there isn't a custom firmware available. This means I can't follow the forwarding instructions given a few pages back. I'm quite stuck as to what to do. Are there some lines I can put into putty to open ports? I've tried to open 51413 on the router but it doesn't seem to work. The strange thing is that sometimes the port seems to be open, for no apparent reason, and then others not. I'm also using remote transmission.

I've tried forwarding from the router, but I'm not sure it's happy being forwarded to itself??? If I change the port in the remote gui to one that I think is open would that work? Sorry, I'm a bit clueless here!

Paste this lines in terminal:

Code:

iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --destination-port 51413 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I INPUT -p udp --destination-port 51413 -j ACCEPT

Unfortunately if you don't have custom firmware with jffs partition enabled, on every router reboot ports will be closed.

pavlfz · Nov 16, 2013

Great, thanks a lot for your quick reply and your help. The problem though is that this doesn't work! So I tried an alternative: I used port 44666 which is definitely open, selected that port on the remote GUI, then inserted your script with the above port instead of the default, but still nothing! I've started and stopped transmission several times, but still no luck.I guess I'm doing something wrong?

Also, when I change the port in the remote gui, stopping transmission using putty results in some processes having to be 'killed', it doesn't seem to shut down normally. Sorry, I'm pretty clueless about much of this!

pavlfz · Nov 16, 2013

According to the log it should be open, but it isn't, or at least transmission is moving at a snail's pace which suggests a closed port!

initnatpmp succeeded (0) (natpmp.c:72)
transmission-daemon[9761]: Port Forwarding (NAT-PMP) sendpublicaddressrequest succeeded (2) (natpmp.c:72)
transmission-daemon[9761]: Port Forwarding (UPnP) Found Internet Gateway Device "http://192.168.1.1:40136/ctl/IPConn" (upnp.c:200)
Port Forwarding (UPnP) Local Address is "192.168.1.1" (upnp.c:202)
Port Forwarding (UPnP) Port forwarding through "http://192.168.1.1:40136/ctl/IPConn", service "urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:WANIPConnection:1". (local address: 192.168.1.1:44666) (upnp.c:277)
Port Forwarding (UPnP) Port forwarding successful! (upnp.c:280)
Port Forwarding State changed from "Not forwarded" to "Forwarded" (port-forwarding.c:93)

pavlfz · Nov 18, 2013

Well, I reinstalled the entire thing, reflashed the router firmware, did all the default resets and etc, formatted to ext3, I did it all. But still the port remained closed (back on 51413 btw). Left it on overnight and all day today, came home to find that all the torrents were finished and that the port is now reporting as open in transmission. Pretty strange I'm sure you will agree. What could be causing this? I didn't change anything. So what did?

Barilla · Nov 27, 2013

How would this Transmission through Entware work on a RT-AC68U?

What kind of performance would one expect? I have 100 Mbit up and down. Will i get similar speeds as if i download and upload from a pc?

RMerlin · Nov 27, 2013

Barilla said:
How would this Transmission through Entware work on a RT-AC68U?

What kind of performance would one expect? I have 100 Mbit up and down. Will i get similar speeds as if i download and upload from a pc?

Entware only supports MIPS processors. It doesn't support ARM devices like the RT-AC68U and RT-AC56U, you can only use Optware on these two.

Barilla · Nov 28, 2013

RMerlin said:
Entware only supports MIPS processors. It doesn't support ARM devices like the RT-AC68U and RT-AC56U, you can only use Optware on these two.

Ah ok. Thanks alot for the answer!

So what kind of performance should one expect? better then download master?

And a sidenote, i cant find the option to check for "Reducing USB 3.0 interference setting" in your or asus firmware, i have looked everywhere.

RMerlin · Nov 28, 2013

Barilla said:
Ah ok. Thanks alot for the answer! So what kind of performance should one expect? better then download master?

No idea, I don't use either.

Barilla said:
And a sidenote, i cant find the option to check for "Reducing USB 3.0 interference setting" in your or asus firmware, i have looked everywhere.

It's on the Wireless Professional page, when on the 2.4 GHz band.

josh.zyman · Jan 8, 2014

I found another tutorial on how to install transmission on asus rt-ac68u, based on this tutorial, but it includes a bit more info and a fix for transmission-daemon crashing.

How to install transmission-daemon for Optware on Asus RT-AC68U

I hope it helps!

perla · Feb 15, 2014

ipkg problem

Hello everyone!

I need some help.
I stucked right after the first step during the installation of Transmission on a RT-N66U router (ASUSWRT-Merlin 3.0.0.4.374.39).

This is what I get:

Code:

perla@NPeterNAS:/tmp/home/root# ipkg update
Downloading http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/oleg/cross/stable/Packages.gz
Inflating http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/oleg/cross/stable/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /opt/lib/ipkg/lists/optware.oleg
Downloading http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/wireless/ASUSWRT/Packages.gz
wget: server returned error: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
An error ocurred, return value: 1.
Collected errors:
ipkg_download: ERROR: Command failed with return value 1: `wget    -q -P /opt/ipkg-ByF1Hm http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/wireless/ASUSWRT/Packages.gz'
perla@NPeterNAS:/tmp/home/root# ipkg upgrade
Nothing to be done
Successfully terminated.
perla@NPeterNAS:/tmp/home/root# ipkg install libiconv
Nothing to be done
An error ocurred, return value: 4.
Collected errors:
Cannot find package libiconv.
Check the spelling or perhaps run 'ipkg update'
perla@NPeterNAS:/tmp/home/root#

Any idea what can be wrong?
Download Master was installed an uninstalled as requested. I also tried this to fix ipkg update issue:

Code:

app_base_packages.sh sda1

Still can't install libiconv...

Thank you very much for your help in advance!

TeHashX · Feb 15, 2014

Probably libiconv is not needed on mipsel devices, try if it's working without it.

r00t4rd3d · Feb 15, 2014

Optware is a broken slob, use Entware:

https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin/wiki/Installing-Transmission-through-Entware

josh.zyman · Feb 15, 2014

r00t4rd3d said:
Optware is a broken slob, use Entware:

https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin/wiki/Installing-Transmission-through-Entware

Entware is not compatible with all routers, Optware is.
I think that the repository has an issue and it cannot install what you are requesting (update, libiconv).
Try to install other packages to see if it works:

Code:

ipkg install nano
ipkg install mc

mavi_06 · Feb 15, 2014

i dont inistall Transmission on my dsl-n66u. can u help me?

TeHashX · Feb 17, 2014

mavi_06 said:
i dont inistall Transmission on my dsl-n66u. can u help me?

Dunno if your dsl router is compatible, this is for mipsel and arm devices.
Post results from this command:

Code:

uname -a

mavi_06 · Feb 17, 2014

TeHashX said:
Dunno if your dsl router is compatible, this is for mipsel and arm devices.
Post results from this command:

Code:

uname -a

Linux DSL-N66U 2.6.22.15 #5 SMP Thu Jan 23 11:47:54 CST 2014 mips unknown

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