Joined: 24 Oct 2008 Posts: 1079 Location: Latin America
Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2022 0:05 Post subject:
fizikz wrote:
Any reports of dying flash on routers, a general idea of how long it typically took, and under what types of usage?
Of the many routers I have had, I recall one ubiquity, one belkin, and a third one dying because nvram issues. I killed the air-station by enabling some fancy spectrum analysis feature it had, the others were old by the time, although quality issues cannot be discarded. _________________ If you want support, please read first the announcements and forum rules.
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Of the many routers I have had, I recall one ubiquity, one belkin, and a third one dying because nvram issues. I killed the air-station by enabling some fancy spectrum analysis feature it had, the others were old by the time, although quality issues cannot be discarded.
So the danger is quite real. I hope the feature request to store ttraff data directly to USB gets implemented sooner rather than later, but we all know how strained the development resources are already.
Joined: 24 Oct 2008 Posts: 1079 Location: Latin America
Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2022 11:10 Post subject:
Don't get me wrong, I don't think it was ttraff what damaged those routers. I have had several equipments running ttraff and logs for years without other memory issues. The three millenials routers I refer perhaps were of a cheaper/basic technology and/or suffered other issues (but I'm almost sure the airrouter was because a failure on it's stock firmware).
But if this concerns you so much, you can write a cron script to generate traffic counters and store those to a file on a mounted USB drive. The most rudimentary/universal way to do that would it be something related with:
store it to a RAM variable or a temp file, wait, repeat, substract, store the traffic stats, (avg speed, etc.). _________________ If you want support, please read first the announcements and forum rules.
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To answer your question, yes it can be saved elsewhere and retained. You also have the option of using YaMon instead, which uses a USB drive and not nvram, if I am not mistaken. _________________ "Life is but a fleeting moment, a vapor that vanishes quickly; All is vanity"
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Ideally, the ttraff feature request for writing to USB gets implemented soon™ / eventually. Next to that, the most practical option looks like YaMon, but I'm hesitant about a project that seems abandoned and unenthusiastic about it fetching files from the internet.
Joined: 24 Oct 2008 Posts: 1079 Location: Latin America
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2022 16:22 Post subject:
fizikz wrote:
Ideally, the ttraff feature request for writing to USB gets implemented soon™ / eventually. Next to that, the most practical option looks like YaMon, but I'm hesitant about a project that seems abandoned and unenthusiastic about it fetching files from the internet.
YaMon is Open Source, so anyone can check the source code and/or compile it / install it whether hesitant.
On the other hand -without wanting to start an argument- I assume you are running dd-wrt, which most likely you downloaded "from the Internet", so that's the whole thing with 3rd party projects, you either trust on the community and accept what is being shared with you for free (as in a beer?), or you examine the code yourself, or write your own code, or stick with the manufacturer's code (on which "you trust"). [End of off Topic]. _________________ If you want support, please read first the announcements and forum rules.
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YaMon is Open Source, so anyone can check the source code and/or compile it / install it whether hesitant.
On the other hand -without wanting to start an argument- I assume you are running dd-wrt, which most likely you downloaded "from the Internet", so that's the whole thing with 3rd party projects, you either trust on the community and accept what is being shared with you for free (as in a beer?), or you examine the code yourself, or write your own code, or stick with the manufacturer's code (on which "you trust"). [End of off Topic].
What I mean is that I don't like a program running on the router fetching files from usage-monitoring.com and google:
https://usage-monitoring.com/help/?t=doLocalFiles
It can make sense for webpages to fetch css and js files, but I don't like a program having such dependencies.
Even more so now that YaMon development appears to be abandoned.
