Has been a very productive morning already. Got linux running on my Linksys WRT54GS router (which previously had some horrible excuse for a firmware running on it). Everything seems to be a lot zippier now and the GUI system for admin is much nicer and expansive.
Read about DD-WRT here
I was having problems with my connection randomly dying a couple times a day, forcing me to power cycle my cable mode / router. So this was something that had to be done. If you have one of these routers (they are indeed quite popular), I would recommend undergoing this process as it seems you can get a lot more for your money in this device.
The router also has this problem with P2P apps or any software that generates a lot of connections.. any way here are some commands to execute in Telnet to fix this kind of problem:
The following instructions are for DD-WRT only
- Do not use the web interface method as it cuts off part of the commands.
- Enable SSH (Admin, Services) as we are going to use the NVRAM method @ http://wrt-wiki.bsr-clan.de/index.php?title=Startup_Scripts#NVRAM_Method
- Login to the router with an SSH client (root/your password).
- Put the following commands into the SSH client.
~ # nvram set rc_startup=”
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses
> echo ‘600 1800 120 60 120 120 10 60 30 120′ > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_conntrack_tcp_timeouts
> “
~ # nvram commit
~ # reboot
Make sure your “Maximum Ports” is set to 4096 on the Management page of your Admin GUI
Footnote: rockin’ out to Alabama 3 this morning per Dan’s recommendation. Pretty rockin tunes!