[HowTo] Asus RT-N16 (Oleg) - optware the simple way

[ecaddict]

Also very interested to hear your USB Transfer speed with this guide.

NFS over UDP (what I use with Linux) is quite OK, ~14MB/s reading speed.
Note however that you have to enable it first in the router's web interface.

If you'd like to use NFS with XP, you have to install MS Windows Services for UNIX (SFU). Also it maybe a bit slower (~10%), but I have checked it only with WL-500gP.
Win 7 Pro has it by default, you have to enable it only, but configuration is a bit more tricky.

TCP (and protocols using it like Samba/FTP) is not performing currently too good. With Windows registry tweak ~10 MB/s is what I measured.
wpte measured with WinSCP ~11 MB/s.
This may however improve in the future (especially if Brodcom produces driver for a more recent Linux kernel).

You can find more about this issue in the related discussion here: http://wl500g.info/showthread.php?p=201438

[avman]

i do it nice and easy... everything went fine, but, hello, houston, we have a problem:
when the router reboot, not work, i think because the partition not mounting:
from the routers log
Jul 3 07:19:45 kernel: EXT3-fs: starting recovery.
Jul 3 07:19:45 kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
Jul 3 07:19:45 kernel: EXT3 FS on sda3, internal journal
Jul 3 07:19:45 kernel: EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
Jul 3 07:19:45 kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Jul 3 07:19:45 USB storage: ext3 fs at /dev/discs/disca/part3 mounted to /tmp/mnt/disca_3
Jul 3 07:19:45 kernel: EXT3-fs: starting recovery.
Jul 3 07:19:45 kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
Jul 3 07:19:45 kernel: EXT3 FS on sda2, internal journal
Jul 3 07:19:45 kernel: EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
Jul 3 07:19:45 kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Jul 3 07:19:45 USB storage: ext3 fs at /dev/discs/disca/part2 mounted to /tmp/mnt/disca_2
ecaddict, i posted it in the prohardver rt n16 forum, too.

[ecaddict]

when the router reboot, not work, i think because the partition not mounting:
from the routers log

Probably /etc/fstab (just like other files added to the flash) is missing, check with:

ls -la /etc/fstab

and then:

ls -la /usr/local/sbin/

If this is the case, re-run the first 3 lines of the optware installation part. It starts with
cd /tmp && wget -O flashf.tar.gz...
and ends with
flashfs save && flashfs commit && flashfs enable

This last one saves the file the flash (before running the commands, you can check if they really exist).