Hello
I have problem with speedport W500v it crashes after about 40 hours. When starting or reseting everything seems to be fine but after mentioned time it stops responding I can't connect trough the WIFI, voip phone is dead, even the reset button is not working. It helps only to cut the power and wait some time to turn on again. I have 0.3.6 firmware and getting internet through the Lan connection and then broadcasting via WIFI. Any suggestion for solution??
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after using the firmware for about 2 weeks, i sadly have to say i had the same problem about 4 times, too. I've got a router connected to a cable modem, and behind both a speedport with bitswitcher firmware running. I'm using it to be able to use stproxy and execute custom scripts on phone calls (atm just interior ones, i'm still hoping for some help with it here).
Every few days the speedport crashes, my whole network is affected, so no device - which all are connected to the other router connected directly to the cable modem!) can reach the internet, or even any of these 2 routers. SSH, etc. don't work, either. Switching off the speedport the whole network is working again at once - and after reboot the speedport's working again for some time.
Kind regards,
KV
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I had this Problems too.
The whole network was unusable when it happened.
LAN-LED flashing constantly.
I discovered that it was Openvpn in my case.
After disabling the custom script which startet openvpn, the problems
where gone.
Strange enought, when i start openvpn via ssh whitout the daemon mode,
this doesnt seem to happen. ( tested only a few hours)
It happened only once and when, but last weekend it happened nearly every
15 minutes, so i had to find out whats going on, or throw the router away …
seems fine now, but no more openvpn at the moment :(
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Anonymous
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2010-07-18
I have the same issue and wrote a workaround script against it.
It creates a cronjob running every 5 minutes and checks if the dns server is available.
If not, it reboots.
# ping router or reboot; workaround against network paralyze
if ; then
CRONDIR="/var/spool/cron/crontabs/"
mkdir -p $CRONDIR
DNS=`grep nameserver /var/fyi/sys/dns | sed -e 's/nameserver //g'`
CMD="ping -c1 $DNS >/dev/null || nvram reboot"
echo "*/5 * * * * $CMD" > $CRONDIR/root
crond
fi
Put the script therein, then klick save and run.
This is a workaround and only works as is, if /var/fyi/sys/dns exists and carries the dns server ip at a single line.
It also has no precautions against any other circumstances, e. g. when powering off your dsl router, the bitswitcher box might reboot continously every 5 minutes.
Be careful, I am not responsible for any harm my script does nor the modifications you do to it nor any mistakes you make yourself. If your box becomes unusable, it is your problem. _Here_ at my place it works as a charm.
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But using the speedport/bitswitcher the way I do now there was a lag when requesting webpages, for instance (about 2-5 seconds) and a greater lag when calling people: after typing the numbers and pressing the 'call' button there was a lag of more than 10 seconds before it actually started to call.
Finally I have to conclude bitswitcher firmware offers nice features I'd like to use, but the lag-disadvantage is too annoying :(
Thanks for your help,
KV
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Anonymous
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2010-08-11
@killervirus: When exactly does your router lag? If you use the script or if you do daily reboots?
Sadly, _here_ the script does not help. After a fresh reboot of the Speedport, if I unplug the internet router, then the script works. But if I let the Speedport run after a couple of days the problem remains. The Speedport is flooding the network with packets I haven't analyzed, yet and must still be restarted by hand.
I haven't told before, so I do now:
I use the Speedport as cheap VOIP and telefone box only and it is not my internet router.
Last check about information about free and uptime:
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 13948 13472 476 0 1064
Swap: 0 0 0
Total: 13948 13472 476
13:08:54 up 23 min, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.04
It has 25 processes sipstart running all the time which I am not so shure of if they are really nescessary - maybe the Speedport W 500V runs out of memory?
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I didn't use your script, I chose to try the menu entry mentioned above. The lags - or better delays - always happen when requesting webpages (and maybe other things, too?) and when calling. I don't exactly know since when I have the page-request delays, but this even happend before setting the reboot option. And for the phone call delay, this occours since using bitswitcher in my network as I do - turning it off prevents delays…
How my network is set up (basically):
1. cable modem -> lan cable -> tp link router (192.168.0.1, eg; every device using internet at home is directly connected to it (lan/wlan) and using it as gateway) -> lan cable -> bitswitcher (192.168.0.3, eg).
2. cable modem -> telephone cable -> bitswitcher -> telephone cable connected at tae-port 1 -> telephone.
@2. Turning the bitswitcher off and letting everything connected as described before the signal seems to get passed through the bitswitcher immediately and the delay is gone.
KV
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Hello
I have problem with speedport W500v it crashes after about 40 hours. When starting or reseting everything seems to be fine but after mentioned time it stops responding I can't connect trough the WIFI, voip phone is dead, even the reset button is not working. It helps only to cut the power and wait some time to turn on again. I have 0.3.6 firmware and getting internet through the Lan connection and then broadcasting via WIFI. Any suggestion for solution??
Hi,
after using the firmware for about 2 weeks, i sadly have to say i had the same problem about 4 times, too. I've got a router connected to a cable modem, and behind both a speedport with bitswitcher firmware running. I'm using it to be able to use stproxy and execute custom scripts on phone calls (atm just interior ones, i'm still hoping for some help with it here).
Every few days the speedport crashes, my whole network is affected, so no device - which all are connected to the other router connected directly to the cable modem!) can reach the internet, or even any of these 2 routers. SSH, etc. don't work, either. Switching off the speedport the whole network is working again at once - and after reboot the speedport's working again for some time.
Kind regards,
KV
I had this Problems too.
The whole network was unusable when it happened.
LAN-LED flashing constantly.
I discovered that it was Openvpn in my case.
After disabling the custom script which startet openvpn, the problems
where gone.
Strange enought, when i start openvpn via ssh whitout the daemon mode,
this doesnt seem to happen. ( tested only a few hours)
It happened only once and when, but last weekend it happened nearly every
15 minutes, so i had to find out whats going on, or throw the router away …
seems fine now, but no more openvpn at the moment :(
I have the same issue and wrote a workaround script against it.
The customscript, see http://bitswitcher.sourceforge.net/howto.html#custom
can be placed at http://speedport.ip/cgi-bin/custom_script.cgi
(replace speedport.ip with the ip address of your bitswitcher box)
It creates a cronjob running every 5 minutes and checks if the dns server is available.
If not, it reboots.
# ping router or reboot; workaround against network paralyze
if ; then
CRONDIR="/var/spool/cron/crontabs/"
mkdir -p $CRONDIR
DNS=`grep nameserver /var/fyi/sys/dns | sed -e 's/nameserver //g'`
CMD="ping -c1 $DNS >/dev/null || nvram reboot"
echo "*/5 * * * * $CMD" > $CRONDIR/root
crond
fi
Put the script therein, then klick save and run.
This is a workaround and only works as is, if /var/fyi/sys/dns exists and carries the dns server ip at a single line.
It also has no precautions against any other circumstances, e. g. when powering off your dsl router, the bitswitcher box might reboot continously every 5 minutes.
Be careful, I am not responsible for any harm my script does nor the modifications you do to it nor any mistakes you make yourself. If your box becomes unusable, it is your problem. _Here_ at my place it works as a charm.
Thanks for sharing your workaround, I'll try it within the next days, if my home internet decides to start working again :P
Would it be possible to you to modify the script so it forces reboot at a given time each day? For example, at 4am.
Thanks in advance,
KV
@killervirus: No need to modify the script for that. BS already has a configuration for daily reboots, go to
http://speedport.ip/cgi-bin/disconnect.cgi
It is at /Services/Additional at the menue.
Thanks for your help, I just set up the router again and added the auto-reboot option. Let's see if it'll work now :)
KV
Well, at least the router did not crash anymore.
But using the speedport/bitswitcher the way I do now there was a lag when requesting webpages, for instance (about 2-5 seconds) and a greater lag when calling people: after typing the numbers and pressing the 'call' button there was a lag of more than 10 seconds before it actually started to call.
Finally I have to conclude bitswitcher firmware offers nice features I'd like to use, but the lag-disadvantage is too annoying :(
Thanks for your help,
KV
@killervirus: When exactly does your router lag? If you use the script or if you do daily reboots?
Sadly, _here_ the script does not help. After a fresh reboot of the Speedport, if I unplug the internet router, then the script works. But if I let the Speedport run after a couple of days the problem remains. The Speedport is flooding the network with packets I haven't analyzed, yet and must still be restarted by hand.
I haven't told before, so I do now:
I use the Speedport as cheap VOIP and telefone box only and it is not my internet router.
Last check about information about free and uptime:
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 13948 13472 476 0 1064
Swap: 0 0 0
Total: 13948 13472 476
13:08:54 up 23 min, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.04
It has 25 processes sipstart running all the time which I am not so shure of if they are really nescessary - maybe the Speedport W 500V runs out of memory?
Hi,
I didn't use your script, I chose to try the menu entry mentioned above. The lags - or better delays - always happen when requesting webpages (and maybe other things, too?) and when calling. I don't exactly know since when I have the page-request delays, but this even happend before setting the reboot option. And for the phone call delay, this occours since using bitswitcher in my network as I do - turning it off prevents delays…
How my network is set up (basically):
1. cable modem -> lan cable -> tp link router (192.168.0.1, eg; every device using internet at home is directly connected to it (lan/wlan) and using it as gateway) -> lan cable -> bitswitcher (192.168.0.3, eg).
2. cable modem -> telephone cable -> bitswitcher -> telephone cable connected at tae-port 1 -> telephone.
@2. Turning the bitswitcher off and letting everything connected as described before the signal seems to get passed through the bitswitcher immediately and the delay is gone.
KV