Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2017 17:39 Post subject: Upgrade Time
I haven't been on for awhile. After reading about the Krack vulnerability I decided to upgrade, I'm running r31899.
I read mrjcd's post on r33555. Is that the latest stable build?
Also, I don't remember if doing the upgrade from the GUI restarts the router with the new firmware.
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2017 18:03 Post subject: Re: Upgrade Time
weese wrote:
I haven't been on for awhile. After reading about the Krack vulnerability I decided to upgrade, I'm running r31899.
I read mrjcd's post on r33555. Is that the latest stable build?
Also, I don't remember if doing the upgrade from the GUI restarts the router with the new firmware.
Yea 33555 is good for EA8500.
Not sure about your other question ......of course any firmware update will reboot the router.
Is it necessary to to reset? No
Will everything work as it did with old firmware?
Yes .... only thing that comes to mind is if running some ovpn stuff...server mainly --- may have to make some adjustments
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2017 18:45 Post subject: Re: Upgrade Time
[quote="mrjcd"]
weese wrote:
Not sure about your other question ......of course any firmware update will reboot the router.
Is it necessary to to reset? No
Will everything work as it did with old firmware?
Yes .... only thing that comes to mind is if running some ovpn stuff...server mainly --- may have to make some adjustments
If it reboots to the new firmware (boot-part 2) then all I'll have to do is re-input the config. If it reboots to the old firmware (boot-part 1), I'll have to lookup the command to reboot to boot-part 2.
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2017 18:56 Post subject: Re: Upgrade Time
[quote="weese"]
mrjcd wrote:
weese wrote:
Not sure about your other question ......of course any firmware update will reboot the router.
Is it necessary to to reset? No
Will everything work as it did with old firmware?
Yes .... only thing that comes to mind is if running some ovpn stuff...server mainly --- may have to make some adjustments
If it reboots to the new firmware (boot-part 2) then all I'll have to do is re-input the config. If it reboots to the old firmware (boot-part 1), I'll have to lookup the command to reboot to boot-part 2.
When you install firmware on the ea8500 it will always boot into what was just installed. Only time this does not happen is if there is a problem with the update....then it will boot back to previous boot part. 3 consecutive failed boots will cause U-Boot to switch to other boot part.
Both boot parts use the same nvram settings so it don't make no nevermind what part is booted cause it uss same conf
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2017 19:09 Post subject: Re: Upgrade Time
[quote="mrjcd"]
weese wrote:
mrjcd wrote:
weese wrote:
Not sure about your other question ......of course any firmware update will reboot the router.
Is it necessary to to reset? No
Will everything work as it did with old firmware?
Yes .... only thing that comes to mind is if running some ovpn stuff...server mainly --- may have to make some adjustments
If it reboots to the new firmware (boot-part 2) then all I'll have to do is re-input the config. If it reboots to the old firmware (boot-part 1), I'll have to lookup the command to reboot to boot-part 2.
When you install firmware on the ea8500 it will always boot into what was just installed. Only time this does not happen is if there is a problem with the update....then it will boot back to previous boot part. 3 consecutive failed boots will cause U-Boot to switch to other boot part.
Both boot parts use the same nvram settings so it don't make no nevermind what part is booted cause it uss same conf
Is it still recommended to return the config to factory default?
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2017 19:19 Post subject: Re: Upgrade Time
weese wrote:
Is it still recommended to return the config to factory default?
No ... don't know that it was ever recommended to do that in the first place.
You should do a clean thorugh reset after you 1st put dd-wrt on the EA8500.
After that you can go about your merry and not worry with it.
If you do some weirdass configs just goofing around then yea probably be wise to reset and have good clean settings before you leave it and leave town
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2017 19:25 Post subject: Re: Upgrade Time
mrjcd wrote:
weese wrote:
Is it still recommended to return the config to factory default?
No ... don't know that it was ever recommended to do that in the first place.
You should do a clean thorugh reset after you 1st put dd-wrt on the EA8500.
After that you can go about your merry and not worry with it.
If you do some weirdass configs just goofing around then yea probably be wise to reset and have good clean settings before you leave it and leave town
Thanks for the info, should be good. This reminds me of doing upgrades on networking devices in a datacenter, always a heart stopper waiting for the prompt to return .
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2017 21:53 Post subject: Re: Upgrade Time
weese wrote:
mrjcd wrote:
weese wrote:
Is it still recommended to return the config to factory default?
No ... don't know that it was ever recommended to do that in the first place.
You should do a clean thorugh reset after you 1st put dd-wrt on the EA8500.
After that you can go about your merry and not worry with it.
If you do some weirdass configs just goofing around then yea probably be wise to reset and have good clean settings before you leave it and leave town
Thanks for the info, should be good. This reminds me of doing upgrades on networking devices in a datacenter, always a heart stopper waiting for the prompt to return .
@mrjcd Which are you using, the BS beta, or the kong version? There is nearly 12MB missing from the Kong version firmware. I have been running the Kong version since I got this router, but I am considering switching to the BS version. What are your thoughts on this?
@mrjcd Which are you using, the BS beta, or the kong version? There is nearly 12MB missing from the Kong version firmware. I have been running the Kong version since I got this router, but I am considering switching to the BS version. What are your thoughts on this?
~# nvram get DD_BOARD
Linksys EA8500
~# cat /tmp/loginprompt
DD-WRT v3.0-r33555 std (c) 2017 NewMedia-NET GmbH
Release: 10/20/17
~# uptime
01:40:50 up 6 days, 23:38, load average: 0.08, 0.02, 0.00
~# date
Sat Oct 28 01:40:50 CDT 2017
@mrjcd Which are you using, the BS beta, or the kong version? There is nearly 12MB missing from the Kong version firmware. I have been running the Kong version since I got this router, but I am considering switching to the BS version. What are your thoughts on this?
@mrjcd Which are you using, the BS beta, or the kong version? There is nearly 12MB missing from the Kong version firmware. I have been running the Kong version since I got this router, but I am considering switching to the BS version. What are your thoughts on this?
I've noted the size difference and I would like to know the reason behind this too.
The dd-wrt public release has several more features, some of which I play with when time permits, most I don't use on main router.
Main reason I use BS builds is Kong build no longer has working 'Recursive DNS Resolver' for long while now...I have not tried Kong last
two releases to date.... been busy with other projects
r33555 10/20/17 is working fine for me so far but will prolly update when I get time.
I'm not having any errors or disconnects or anything like that at all.
Only funny bussiness in dmesg is couple times I updated static lease + restarted unbound....
and there is a long string 'arp spoofing detected' when I connected a repeater bridge to it just to
prove to someone the old brcm device RB still worked w/ a new build
not much going on with it atm....
:~# uptime
09:47:16 up 8 days, 7:44, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00
Just wondering why dd-wrt never registers ssh rsync traffic on the LAN???
Noticed that the other day looking at ..status/bandwidth it never showed a blip when moving stuff around ....hmmm I dunno
EA8500
DD-WRT v3.0-r33610M kongat (10/29/17)
Linux 3.18.77 #186 SMP PREEMPT Sun Oct 29 13:01:43 CET 2017
I install Kong newest on da test router.
Looks like got another 'lil kern bump.
but
Same ol same ath10k for the 9980
ovpn good
samba good
wifi good so far... limited test
'bout all I got time for now
Hi guys, I have a non-us EA8500 with the international 1.1.7.182977 firmware and I am thinking to flash it with dd-wrt.
I've been reading quite a few pages in this post and also the instructions in this page which stated in red is for US EA8500. But I just can't find any info regarding the non-us EA8500.
Does my non-us EA8500 also requires USB to TTL in order to flash? Or the international version does not lock the firmware?
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