How to piss away your brand-name
With v5 of its great WRT54G wireless router, Linksys went from a Linux-based OS to a VxWorks-based OS.
Why? Hardware. Even a free Linux has its costs: it required them to use twice as much RAM.
The Linux based product is one they've been debugging for many years; there are probably millions out there. The VxWorks one is brand new, and going through all the obvious quality pains you would expect.
One classic issue that has returned is the timeout of inactive connections. Tech support was ever oh-so-useful. Check out how it's supposedly confidential, too. Bleah.
Egads.
Subject very short timeout in WRT54G v5 Discussion Thread Response (Xxx Xxxxxx X(00000)) 12/16/2005 10:25 AM \n Dear Valued Linksys Customer, Thank you for contacting Linksys Technical Support. Look for a “keep alive” option on the SSH client software and enable it. If you have any further questions, feel free to visit our Knowledge Base at http://www.linksys.com/kb/ or send us an e-mail at support@linksys.com so that we can further assist you. Thank you and have a nice day! Sincerely, Xxx Xxxxxx Badge ID 00000 Linksys – A Division of Cisco Systems, Inc. Product Support Specialist Website: http://www.linksys.com Network Setup: http://www.linksys.com/edu This correspondence is considered confidential and any reproduction for the purpose of public disclosure is forbidden without written permission by the author signed above. Please keep all previous emails as a point of reference. \n Customer 12/15/2005 09:02 PM If I leave a telnet or ssh session open for ten minutes with my WRT54G, the connection is forcibly closed. This wasn\'t a problem with my previous WRT54G. I am running "Firmware Version: \tv1.00.4, Dec. 8, 2005" How can I change or eliminate this value? This correspondence is considered confidential and any reproduction for the purpose of public disclosure is forbidden without written permission by the author signed above. Please keep all previous emails as a point of reference. Customer 12/15/2005 09:02 PM If I leave a telnet or ssh session open for ten minutes with my WRT54G, the connection is forcibly closed. This wasn't a problem with my previous WRT54G. I am running "Firmware Version: v1.00.4, Dec. 8, 2005" How can I change or eliminate this value?
posted by Dan Weber at 10:41 AM
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Did you ever get that fixed? I just bought one of these and I'm going to return it tomorrow. Just ridiculous that these routers cut off idle connections.
Nope, I didn't. I set up my Linux boxes to send a keepalive of 90 seconds by setting the value in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_time and that keeps most of what I'm concerned about working well enough.
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