[Eug-lug] WRT54G and WRT54GL routers - anybody had this problem?

[Michael Miller]

I looked at DD-WRT and it did not have many of the features I was
looking for.  I'm currently playing with OpenWRT which I think has a
clearer development cycle / path.  If you want more control you might
think about switching to OpenWRT White Russian (Current Stable 0.9 )
or Kamikaze (Current Dev/Beta 7.09).

This is a link to the QoSHowto

http://wiki.openwrt.org/MiniHowtos/QoSHowto

This is a link to X-Wrt a web interface for OpenWRT

http://x-wrt.org/

-Miller


On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Bob Carlson <bob at rjcarlson.com> wrote:
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> Yes, I'm using DD-WRT and the switch is part of the router.
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> I wanted to configure QOS because this is both my and my wife's work phone
> and there is a lot of stuff happening on the network. I write Wifi software
> for a living so the networking in the house is, let us say, complicated.
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> There are lots of ways to configure the QOS in the DD-WRT, but using the mac
> address seemed like the most straightforward. Best would be if the PAP2 was
> setting DSCP properly and the DD-WRT allowed you to configure that.
> Bitorrent is also set up a Bulk. I prefer the classes used by 802.11, Voice,
> Video, Best Effort and Background.
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> I do need to get a UPS or two.
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> Cheers, Bob
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> Eugene, OR - Tucson, AZ
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> From: euglug-bounces at euglug.org [mailto:euglug-bounces at euglug.org] On Behalf
> Of Ben Barrett
>  Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 12:37 PM
>  To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group
>  Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] WRT54G and WRT54GL routers - anybody had this
> problem?
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> I have not, and also have a Linksys PAP2 from Viatalk connected to my
> Linksys NAT-router -- although I have never seemed to need to fuss with QoS.
> I also do not have any LAN bridge or other switch, as you do.  Is your
> switch a separate device, or are you referring to a multi-port router?  If
> standalone, is it a smart switch or a dummy, or actually a hub?  On the
> asterisk wiki there is some documentation about configuring Viatalk, which
> may be helpful if you haven't seen it, and I think Viatalk has decent
> support pages too (although I haven't needed them, admittedly).
>  Oh, you're using DD-WRT instead of the Linksys firmware?  If that is the
> case, then my comparison might not be very helpful... fwiw, I put my cable
> modem, router, pap2, and phone all on a UPS and can confirm that I still
> have voip service during power outages, which was my goal.  Next would be
> finding a suitable fail-over uplink. :)
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>  Question though:  can't you simply configure the QoS to favor your sip/voip
> traffic rather than the originating address?  That way, if you chose to run
> a soft-phone client you'd still achieve desirable service quality?
>  Related question:  did you setup QoS b/c of bad call quality, or just b/c
> you could, or in expectation of silly asymetic uplinks grinding things to a
> halt, or something else?
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>  ~ben
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> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Bob Carlson <bob at rjcarlson.com> wrote:
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> I have a couple of these. One is the main router, the other configured as a
> bridge to connect my office to the router and cable. At the router I also
> have a Linksys PAP2 (connected to the switch with an Ethernet cable) which
> is the IAD for a ViaTalk voip line.
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>  I set up QOS to favor the PAP2 using it's mac address, but I also assign a
> fixed IP address to the PAP2 in DHCP.
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>  Here's where the problem comes in. Whenever I restart the router for any
> reason, the PAP2 gets disoriented. It won't work correctly until I assign a
> different IP address and reboot the router again. It has something to do
> with the PAP2 reregistering with its SIP server.
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>  Has anybody seen this problem? I could track it down, but it would take a
> long time and lot of equipment shuffling. The DD_WRT sites don't seem to
> have any info on this.
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>  Cheers, Bob
>  Eugene, OR - Tucson, AZ
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