[MLB-WIRELESS] Linksys WRT54G and Telstra Bigpong Heartbeat

[David Ashburner]

>I recall a message a while back about problems with the WRT54G and the 
>Bigpong heartbeat.  My unit has been pressed into service on the Telstra 
>Cable and I now have a problem where it locks out occasionally (every few 
>days, usually around 5pm - busy time).  It needs a "Disconnect" and 
>"Reconnect" to bring things back to life.

Ah yes, the 5 minute heartbeat that comes in at 5:13 for 80% ogf the time 
and over 7:00 for the rest!!

So, the problem with it is that the WRT (linksys build) has a multi-call 
binary called rc to do all the init.d stuf. Instead of a bunch of scripts 
there is this binary that does the same thing. As part of the init actions 
the bpaLogin conf file is written in /tmp then the bpalogin binary is 
launched. The config file does not set the max period for the heartbeat so 
it defaults to 5 min.

Your router is re-loging in every 5 minutes unless the heartbeat gets there 
in less than 5 ( I've logged this for over a year and NEVER had it in less 
than 5 minutes). That dosen't affect your aility to do anything through the 
service but when that re-login fails ( once a day ) because of por response 
from the login or heartbeat server then it gives up.

Not specifying the login server address is best as that code path is not 
broken, if you did specify it then it would fail a dns lookup ( broken name) 
and you would be listening for heartbeats on port 0. - sigh, time out, 
re-login  adinfinitum.

>
>I have not entered the Heartbeat Server name in the Linksys setup, which  I 
>recall was advised in that earlier email.
>
>I'm running the latest Linksys firmware (v3.03.6).  Can anyone suggest 
>firmware that will work OK with Telstra (and more features would be OK too 
>;-))

I haven't updated my build to the 3.x yet. I have a pretty good image from 
about a year ago that works with bigpond without having to be reset. I't 
probably a little more functional that stock but not as feature rich as the 
recent openwrt and sverasoft offerings

i'll dig it out and post it on the mw website.



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