From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QCby6-0001rQ-S2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:17:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BEC4B1C025; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:15:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85C4A1C025 for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:15:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0429D1B4026 for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:15:44 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.295 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.295 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.696, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id u4GS5rWvohfR for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:15:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F67E1B400F for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:15:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QCbw2-0005Dt-HF for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:15:30 +0200 Received: from c-98-215-231-30.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.231.30]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:15:30 +0200 Received: from reader by c-98-215-231-30.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:15:30 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Harry Putnam Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT router advice] a router capable of detailed logs Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:15:13 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <8739lceqmm.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <878vv69asl.fsf@newsguy.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-231-30.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110016 (No Gnus v0.16) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:TpgrvQAaYyHjWMukHl8MICHmm+0= X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 147e415d1435d79ad8006a14e7f0c857 Stroller writes: > Consider OpenWRT. You can run it on something like the Netgear > WNR2000, the Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH, or something even cheaper if you > don't need wifi. I don't need wifi, but of course OpenWRT won't run on the cisco But that WZR-HP-G300NH is looking promising. Paul Hartman writes: [...] > I have WZR-HP-G300NH (running DD-WRT), if you don't plan on using wifi > it would be great. The wifi is really unstable and I couldn't > recommend this device if you're a heavy wifi user, but the wired > portion works great, the device itself is by far the fastest I've ever > owned, and it has a USB port so you can attach external storage in > case you want to use it as a server, too. Can you make any comment about the logging capabilities? "W.Kenworthy" writes: [...] > I have this device and am using Firmware: DD-WRT v24-sp2 (08/07/10) std > - its been totally stable since I dumped the buffalo firmware. My son > plays windoze online games and I often move large files around as well > as stream mythtv across it - no problems at all. Until I started > powering the systems down at night (power charges went up :) it would > stay up for over a month at a time and it was never a crash as to why it > was restarted - usually power, or reconfiguration. Maybe you can make some comment about logging capablities? Maybe one or both of you might be willing to post a log sample?