Worked fine for a year or more but recently I've been having problems seeding torrents: filtered UDP by 67.231.222.233. And that's not my IP address (belongs to ISP). Anyway, I tried to log into my dd-wrt x86 box (dell tower computer) to forward a new UDP port to my computer and the interface was super slow. About 2 mins to load the status screen, when I click the status tab to login it takes about 2 minutes to bring up the login box then when I enter my username and password it won't login (I assume it timed out waiting for my username/password). Eventually I can get it to bring up the login box quick once and I can get logged in but takes 30 mins to get to the port forwarding tab, make a change then save/apply it
I tried rebooting the dd-wrt box, rebooted my modem. Removed switch and connected laptop directly to back of network card in dd-wrt box. Same problems Tried different browsers, different computers.
Is there a newer version of dd-wrt x86 I should try? I checked the hard drive for errors with spinrite, no problems found. I'm about to ditch dd-wrt and install RouterOS
Joined: 06 Jun 2006 Posts: 7492 Location: Dresden, Germany
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 12:36 Post subject:
if you're status screen took 2 min to load, there is something faulty. i mean the only way to get it that slow is to enable qos and to set a low bandwidth limit. this may cause such issues since it affects your own access as well. i'm using the x86 build on my main router as well. for sure a much newer build which are available on our ftp server. but it doesnt take a millisecond to load the page _________________ "So you tried to use the computer and it started smoking? Sounds like a Mac to me.." - Louis Rossmann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL_5YDRWqGE&t=60s
Joined: 09 Aug 2007 Posts: 36 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 21:56 Post subject:
BrainSlayer wrote:
if you're status screen took 2 min to load, there is something faulty. i mean the only way to get it that slow is to enable qos and to set a low bandwidth limit. this may cause such issues since it affects your own access as well. i'm using the x86 build on my main router as well. for sure a much newer build which are available on our ftp server. but it doesnt take a millisecond to load the page
Do you have a direct link for the latest x86 edition?
I didn't have QoS enabled and like I said, the thing ran for a year or more FLAWLESSLY, no problems at all. I was always connecting into the router config pages every few weeks, forwarding ports for new IP cameras, changing my UDP ports whenever my ISP would throttle them, etc. Only for the last week or two was I having the problem (dd-wrt "filtering" UDP and gui config pages loading very slow), and I had made no changes prior to the problem popping up. 2 mins or more to browse to any config page, with maybe 1 out of 10 requests loading quickly. It was just impossible for me to work with so I axed dd-wrt and installed pfSense. Every page loads instantaneously just like dd-wrt used to.
There was some freaky NAT issues when I first installed pfSense (kept saying it blocked DNS redirect attack) when trying to browse to my internal virtual server websites (on a server on my internal network) but after I changed the NAT reflection to Pure Nat instead of Disabled it works great now:
If you've got a link to the latest dd-wrt x86 I'd be willing to give it a go again!
Joined: 09 Aug 2007 Posts: 36 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2014 19:49 Post subject:
_Robb_ wrote:
Are you able to telnet into your router and run top during a slow page opening?
I had a VGA monitor connected to my "router" and could log into the terminal but never thought to run TOP (I'm not much of a linux guy).
The "router" is a dual core 3ghz machine and I've never ever seen the CPU usage go above 1% even if I had the status page open then tried to open more config pages in other tabs, still zero load averages, 0% cpu usage, etc
Joined: 09 Aug 2007 Posts: 36 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2014 21:03 Post subject:
_Robb_ wrote:
Maybe it's not problem with cpu but io?
Can you show some sample output of top? or iostat 1
My "router" is running pfSense now, not dd-wrt, so won't be able to. If someone can link me the newest x86 dd-wrt I'll install it again and see if I have the same issues.
