New Asus RT-N16 Router

[Catalin]

PS: DIG ''''EVEN'''' DEEPER Catalin. In my country we used to say: "You lost a good opportunity to shut up"

Well well well, Q.E.D... I never said anything about RT-N16 having any CPU other than BCM4718... You can read a few lines up... I did not want to say anything more because of the way you react... You did this before, and you did it now...

So, if you are happy to go on with your assumptions, go ahead... I told you this CPU, using the current drivers, IS NOT STABLE at the designed frequency, and I pointed out the fact that every single manufacturer that use it has it underclocked. Your answer was that datasheet doesn't lie... Does the datasheet include the driver specs? I said that you may want to dig deeper before jumping to conclusins based on your unit which you THINK is overclocked and you THINK is stable... Look for and read what Oleg said about BCM4718 at 533 MHz, and why is running at 480 MHz from the factory...

This is my last post here. Keep up jumping to conclusions based on "facts"...

[hggomes]

This is a forum, it's normal people "discuss", different opinions. You don't need to "last post here" because my answer, it's unnecessary

I respect your opinion, i only said that MY ROUTER was working rock stable at 532MHZ that it's TRUE (24H/24H, services running, 7 wireless clients connected, etc. ROCKSTABLE, not even a crash, nothing), and i receive a "DIG DEEPER", what was the point?? Maybe your router isn't stable at that frequency, so i have to say mine is not too?

Bahhh, i stay with my opinion and you with yours

Cheers

[theMIROn]

Calm down, ppl, I've got working rt-n16@533, but there's no garantee of stability with current broadcom sdk.
First cpu samples were running at 533Mhz, than first parties were shipped only at 453 (looks like reinsurance), and now all brands ships this board with 480 Mhz.

[pballok]

Hello!
How stable is olegs FW? I'm using dd-wrt now. Is olegs usable, because i want to get rid of dd-wrt.

Hello,

I'm also interested in this...
I just bought an rt-n16 and looking for options what firmware to use.
Is Oleg's firmware stable enough for a newbie like me to use? Or should I wait a bit more? (currently using the firmware that originally came with the router)

I'd like to run my own httpd, git, mysql and possibly other services on the router, so I'm really looking forward to replacing the original fw

thanks for the tips

[wpte]

Hello,

I'm also interested in this...
I just bought an rt-n16 and looking for options what firmware to use.
Is Oleg's firmware stable enough for a newbie like me to use? Or should I wait a bit more? (currently using the firmware that originally came with the router)

I'd like to run my own httpd, git, mysql and possibly other services on the router, so I'm really looking forward to replacing the original fw

thanks for the tips

yes it's quite stable, I've been running it for some time now and it works good
check my post: http://wl500g.info/showthread.php?p=187707
it has some more basic information

[hggomes]

For most recent firmwares WL and RT serie go here:

ftp://core.dumped.ru

[bigphantom]

For most recent firmwares WL and RT serie go here:

ftp://core.dumped.ru

thanks, but I have a question
are they final firmwares ore still in alpha/beta phase ? (RT-N ones)

[wpte]

thanks, but I have a question
are they final firmwares ore still in alpha/beta phase ? (RT-N ones)

nightly built alpha releases
according to mr lly http://wl500g.info/showpost.php?p=190892&postcount=69

[maurer]

For most recent firmwares WL and RT serie go here:

ftp://core.dumped.ru

can these be safely used on wl-500gp v1?
has anyone tried yet ?

[lly]

can these be safely used on wl-500gp v1?
has anyone tried yet ?

If you can answer to yourself why to install experimental builds on 2.6 kernel, then yes.

[ecaddict]

I've been playing a little bit with RT-N16-1.9.2.7-rtn-r1389.trx.
It seems quite OK (thanks for the great work), though I have some issues.

First I tried to take into use jumbo frames. Started with nvram settings:

nvram set jumbo_frame_size=7000
nvram set jumbo_frame_enable=1
nvram save && nvram commit && nvram enable

reboot
nvram show gives:

nvram show | grep jumbo_frame
size: 13730 bytes (19038 left)
jumbo_frame_size=7000
jumbo_frame_enable=1

However when I try to set MTU of some interface beyond 1500 it fails:

ifconfig eth1 mtu 7000
SIOCSIFMTU: Invalid argument

ifconfig eth1 mtu 1500
is OK. What am I doing wrong, or are there some issues in this area?

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I've taken into use NFS. Exports is what I was using earlier with WL-500gPv1:

cat /etc/exports 
# automagically generated from web settings
/mnt 192.168.1.0/24(rw,insecure,all_squash,anonuid=0,anongid=0,sync)
/opt 192.168.1.0/24(rw,insecure,all_squash,anonuid=0,anongid=0,sync)

Inserted all modules:

modprobe nfs
modprobe nfsd
exportfs -r
nfsd
mountd

If I use TCP, performance is like Samba:

mkdir /tmp/RT-N16
sudo mount -t nfs -o rsize=32768,wsize=32768,timeo=14,intr,proto=tcp 192.168.1.1:/mnt /tmp/RT-N16

When I make the mount from my Linux PC using UDP, performance is excellent (I could copy from router to PC with 12.5 MByte/s, which is beyond my initial expectations):

sudo mount -t nfs -o rsize=32768,wsize=32768,timeo=14,intr,proto=udp 192.168.1.1:/mnt /tmp/RT-N16

However when copying from Linux PC to router there are some issues...

Also it seems that 16 kBytes NFS max block size is used, could it be increased to 32 kBytes (like in WL-500gP)?

[lly]

However when I try to set MTU of some interface beyond 1500 it fails:

ifconfig eth1 mtu 7000
SIOCSIFMTU: Invalid argument

ifconfig eth1 mtu 1500
is OK. What am I doing wrong, or are there some issues in this area?

Was you try statement above on PC or original ASUS FW?

However when copying from Linux PC to router there are some issues...

Unfortunately, we have to use 2.6.22 kernel due to ugly Broadcom policy. Most of subsystems requires backports from upstream

Also it seems that 16 kBytes NFS max block size is used, could it be increased to 32 kBytes (like in WL-500gP)?

Yes, but some time later.

[ecaddict]

Was you try statement above on PC or original ASUS FW?

On the PC I've sucessfully changed the MTU to 7000 with basically the same command (same except I had to use sudo).
It's the router (with r1389 firmware) that has failed the ifconfig command.

The reason why I tried to use 7000 bytes (instead of 9000) is that the RealTek chip used in my PC's NIC supports only 7000 bytes.

[lly]

On the PC I've sucessfully changed the MTU to 7000 with basically the same command (same except I had to use sudo).
It's the router (with r1389 firmware) that has failed the ifconfig command.

Ok, will take a look to et driver, but in case of it Broadcom/ASUS bug, it may take a long time.

Updated: Unfortunately, there is no jumbo frames support in current ethernet driver(et). Maybe, we will able to write missing part ourselves in future, but due to absence of BCM53115 datasheet in public access it is no so easy task.

[ecaddict]

Updated: Unfortunately, there is no jumbo frames support in current ethernet driver(et). Maybe, we will able to write missing part ourselves in future, but due to absence of BCM53115 datasheet in public access it is no so easy task.

How nice of Broadcom , they don't ship their chip with a driver that supports jumbo frames, don't give documentation so that support can be added, yet they advertize in the Product Brief that it supports 9KB jumbo frames.
Yeah probably, just no-one can use it...