Posted: Tue May 31, 2016 11:01 Post subject: R7800 Discussion - 2016
Hi guys, I'm a bit new to the WRT world. I got an R7800 looking to replace an old Draytek as it's hung on me a few times. Thanks very my for the development of this software.
I'm struggling to get my R7800 setup the way I like. Wonder if you guys can point me in the right direction. I've got a /29 from my ISP that I want to NAT on the R7800. I've looked into some of the docs that are pointing me at doing manual iptables rules for the NAT but I'm failing to get them working. Also, is there a way of defining in the GUI all the networks inside the router? By default it sets up some rules for NAT and security for the LAN defined on the LAN interface but it doesn't seem to have anywhere to put the other apart from the static routing entries.
I can do a diagram of the network if needed. but it's pretty straight forward.
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2016 1:29 Post subject: Privoxy
<kong>, thanks so much for this fantastic build. Been running since the 5/16 build (now on the 5/29 build) with no wireless issues, reboots, etc.
One question, I've enabled the embedded Privoxy in transparent mode. It kills my goodsync and no matter what I put in the whitelist (forwarders, mediators, etc), it still hangs it. As soon as I disable Privoxy it returns to life.
Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2016 14:26 Post subject: JFFS2 support?
Great build. Question, I enabled JFF2 in the administration tab, but always seem to have zero available space. Is this a manifestation of this build? I do have a USB drive connected without issue. Would like to use JFFS for Privoxy
Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2016 17:52 Post subject: openvpn, jffs, esata
Thank you Kong, I have been playing with an r7800 this weekend and I'm impressed by how well your builds work already considering they're very young.
The few problems I've noticed so far:
The performance of Openvpn seems constrained somehow: using it as a client against the same exact server / encryption I get far lower cpu usage on an Asus ac68u while at the same transfer speed (10mbps, limited by the server). Not sure this is caused by the build or the kernel v3 vs v4, but I almost have a feeling this might be caused by excessive cpu throttling on the r7800.
Second issue is I cannot use the esata port: nothing happens when I connect a working device.. Checked the kernel modules list to see if there's anything I need to load but couldn't find anything.
Third isssue is Jffs doesn't seem to work.. Says it's read only even after clearing it.
Finally the wireless led lights don't work but I think I read that's a driver issue.
Hope this helps and let me know in case you want me to run any additional test that would help troubleshooting these. Thanks and great job on this.
Can't believe how well it works overall after just a few builds!
Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2016 19:35 Post subject: Performance issues
Actually I also see very high CPU usage when writing to USB, at least compared to the Asus ac68u, which should be about 50% slower in terms of CPU. So not only an Openvpn issue but in general a CPU performance issue.
Anybody else experiencing this?
Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2016 23:55 Post subject: Re: openvpn
carucio wrote:
Thank you Kong, I have been playing with an r7800 this weekend and I'm impressed by how well your builds work already considering they're very young.
The few problems I've noticed so far:
The performance of Openvpn seems constrained somehow: using it as a client against the same exact server / encryption I get far lower cpu usage on an Asus ac68u while at the same transfer speed (10mbps, limited by the server). Not sure this is caused by the build or the kernel v3 vs v4, but I almost have a feeling this might be caused by excessive cpu throttling on the r7800.
Second issue is I cannot use the esata port: nothing happens when I connect a working device.. Checked the kernel modules list to see if there's anything I need to load but couldn't find anything.
Third isssue is Jffs doesn't seem to work.. Says it's read only even after clearing it.
Finally the wireless led lights don't work but I think I read that's a driver issue.
Hope this helps and let me know in case you want me to run any additional test that would help troubleshooting these. Thanks and great job on this.
Can't believe how well it works overall after just a few builds!
First - thank you Kong for supporting this device, your continuing effort is much appreciated.
Lurker's first post, been on an aging N66U for several years and jumped over to a R7800 last week.
I'm experiencing the same issue here OpenVPN tunnel, was at 12mbps up/down previously maxed out on the old router, now it spikes up to 12mbps however it times out or stalls and is unstable (exact same VPN server and settings) and often at times its hovering below 1mbps with inconsistencies.
Anything I could share to provide details?
Separate thought, does anyone know the stock RAM speed on this devices or have attempted to overclock it?
Sorry for the -little- off topic, I can't find a general R7800 thread (not Kong build) I want to buy this router but I have two simply questions:
1) DD-WRT to stock firmware I've read is not yet done by Kong but I don't understand if it is possible to flash the stock firmware from the BrainSlayer build?
2) the jffs partition is working on BS or Kong build? I need it for setting up privoxy.
Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2016 2:15 Post subject: 6/28 Build Comments
Okay, I was running the 6/24 30016 build on my R7800 without issues. I loaded the 6/28 <kong> 30055 build using the webif. Both 2.4 and 5 ghz bands work fine. My only issue so far seems that my USB drive (which mounted without issue on 30016) won't mount on 30055. It briefly spins up then shuts down. Did it a few times with reboots, etc - no go. I did an erase nvram before the webif update and afterwards as well. No indication in the /var/log/messages to indicate why though?
