[lexridge]

[glenb77]

thanks. i did not notice that the wifi chip is qca9982 and it is qca9980 on the ea8500. since it is atheros i may try to build an openwrt. linksys (belkin) has these as refurbs for 40 dollars so may be worth some experimentation.

[zGunBLADEz]

So the webgui have issues... I was wondering if it was related to chrome or my zoom/dpi scaling UHD resolution here and i need to use scalings.....

Usually a refresh would fix it but was wondering why it was behaving like that..

[mrjcd]

[tatsuya46]

qca9982 is supported by ath10k but the router itself will probably need its own build so bs or kong will need one..

[zGunBLADEz]

So far so good, been stable over 5ghz wifi other than the errors on the RX which i dont know what to make of it..
Firmware: DD-WRT v3.0-r32693 std (07/14/17)

[mrjcd]

[zGunBLADEz]

i was testing the settings tetsu told me i did put it in 0 now and see how it behaves... It did greet me with rx errors tho lol

Cant believe how fast 1gbit is steam cant keep up with it and im not only getting like 50-55avg and 60/MBs peak tops out of it

[mrjcd]

EA8500
DD-WRT v3.0-r32780M kongat (07/21/17)
Linux 3.18.61 #132 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jul 21 19:29:31 CEST 2017 armv7l

http://www.desipro.de/ddwrt/K3-AC-IPQ806X/
ddwrt-Linksys-EA8500.bin 2017-07-21 19:32 24M

SFE seems to work ok. Still runs w/QOS --- no DL limit
Haven't had any webif crashes but there is still this issue w/Recursive DNS...
syslog say she starts but he's lyin --- most her parts are there but she is dead
w/nothing to make her run so probably won't put this build on main router

:~# cat /tmp/unbound.conf
server:
verbosity: 1
interface: 0.0.0.0
interface: ::0
outgoing-range: 60
outgoing-num-tcp: 1
incoming-num-tcp: 1
msg-buffer-size: 8192
msg-cache-size: 100k
msg-cache-slabs: 1
num-queries-per-thread: 30
rrset-cache-size: 100k
rrset-cache-slabs: 1
infra-cache-slabs: 1
infra-cache-numhosts: 200
access-control: 0.0.0.0/0 allow
access-control: ::0/0 allow
username: ""
pidfile: "/var/run/unbound.pid"
root-hints: "/etc/unbound/named.cache"
target-fetch-policy: "2 1 0 0 0 0"
harden-short-bufsize: yes
harden-large-queries: yes
auto-trust-anchor-file: "/etc/unbound/root.key"
key-cache-size: 100k
key-cache-slabs: 1
neg-cache-size: 10k
local-data: "localhost A 127.0.0.1"
local-data: "DD-WRT A 192.168.1.1"
local-data: "DD-WRT.jcd A 192.168.1.1"
local-data: "BigBox.jcd A 192.168.1.240"
python:
remote-control:

:~# ls /tmp/etc/unbound
named.cache root.key unbound.conf

:~# cat /tmp/etc/unbound/root.key
. IN DS 19036 8 2 49AAC11D7B6F6446702E54A1607371607A1A41855200FD2CE1CDDE32F24E8FB5

:~# cat /tmp/etc/unbound/named.cache
; This file holds the information on root name servers needed to
; initialize cache of Internet domain name servers
; (e.g. reference this file in the "cache . <file>"
; configuration file of BIND domain name servers).
;
; This file is made available by InterNIC
; under anonymous FTP as
; file /domain/named.cache
; on server FTP.INTERNIC.NET
; -OR- RS.INTERNIC.NET
;
; last update: November 05, 2014
; related version of root zone: 2014110501
;
; formerly NS.INTERNIC.NET
;
. 3600000 NS A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 198.41.0.4
A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 AAAA 2001:503:ba3e::2:30
;
; FORMERLY NS1.ISI.EDU
;
. 3600000 NS B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 192.228.79.201
B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 AAAA 2001:500:84::b
;
; FORMERLY C.PSI.NET
;
. 3600000 NS C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 192.33.4.12
C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 AAAA 2001:500:2::c
;
; FORMERLY TERP.UMD.EDU
;
. 3600000 NS D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 199.7.91.13
D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 AAAA 2001:500:2d::d
;
; FORMERLY NS.NASA.GOV
;
. 3600000 NS E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 192.203.230.10
;
; FORMERLY NS.ISC.ORG
;
. 3600000 NS F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 192.5.5.241
F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 AAAA 2001:500:2f::f
;
; FORMERLY NS.NIC.DDN.MIL
;
. 3600000 NS G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 192.112.36.4
;
; FORMERLY AOS.ARL.ARMY.MIL
;
. 3600000 NS H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 128.63.2.53
H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 AAAA 2001:500:1::803f:235
;
; FORMERLY NIC.NORDU.NET
;
. 3600000 NS I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 192.36.148.17
I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 AAAA 2001:7fe::53
;
; OPERATED BY VERISIGN, INC.
;
. 3600000 NS J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 192.58.128.30
J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 AAAA 2001:503:c27::2:30
;
; OPERATED BY RIPE NCC
;
. 3600000 NS K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 193.0.14.129
K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 AAAA 2001:7fd::1
;
; OPERATED BY ICANN
;
. 3600000 NS L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 199.7.83.42
L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 AAAA 2001:500:3::42
;
; OPERATED BY WIDE
;
. 3600000 NS M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 202.12.27.33
M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 AAAA 2001:dc3::35
; End of file

:~# ls /var/run
ath0_hostapd.pid ath1_hostapd.pid crond.pid dnsmasq.pid hostapd httpd.pid udhcpc.pid

:~# cat /tmp/var/log/messages | grep unbound
Dec 31 18:00:12 DD-WRT user.info : unbound : recursive dns resolver daemon successfully started
Dec 31 18:00:16 DD-WRT user.info : unbound : recursive dns resolver daemon successfully started
Jul 21 16:26:50 DD-WRT user.info : unbound : unbound daemon successfully stopped
Jul 21 16:26:50 DD-WRT user.info : unbound : recursive dns resolver daemon successfully started
Jul 21 16:27:08 DD-WRT user.info : unbound : recursive dns resolver daemon successfully started
Jul 21 16:27:08 DD-WRT user.info : unbound : recursive dns resolver daemon successfully started

:~# ps
PID USER VSZ STAT COMMAND
1 root 1416 S /sbin/init
2 root 0 SW [kthreadd]
3 root 0 SW [ksoftirqd/0]
5 root 0 SW< [kworker/0:0H]
6 root 0 SW [kworker/u4:0]
7 root 0 SW [rcu_preempt]
8 root 0 SW [rcu_sched]
9 root 0 SW [rcu_bh]
10 root 0 SW [migration/0]
11 root 0 SW [migration/1]
12 root 0 SW [ksoftirqd/1]
13 root 0 SW [kworker/1:0]
14 root 0 SW< [kworker/1:0H]
15 root 0 SW< [khelper]
16 root 0 SW< [writeback]
18 root 0 SW< [crypto]
19 root 0 SW< [bioset]
20 root 0 SW< [kblockd]
21 root 0 SW [kswapd0]
22 root 0 SW [fsnotify_mark]
31 root 0 SW [kworker/u4:1]
34 root 0 SW [kworker/1:1]
43 root 0 SW< [deferwq]
44 root 0 SW [kworker/0:2]
690 root 748 S /sbin/hotplug2 --set-rules-file /etc/hotplug2.rules --persistent
748 root 0 SW< [cfg80211]
758 root 0 SW< [ath10k_wq]
759 root 0 SW< [ath10k_aux_wq]
762 root 0 SW< [ath10k_wq]
763 root 0 SW< [ath10k_aux_wq]
1073 root 1132 S telnetd
1328 root 1124 S syslogd -L
1330 root 1124 S klogd
1358 root 1612 S resetbutton
3027 root 2244 S hostapd -B -P /var/run/ath0_hostapd.pid /tmp/ath0_hostap.conf
3049 root 2244 S hostapd -B -P /var/run/ath1_hostapd.pid /tmp/ath1_hostap.conf
3168 root 1612 S ttraff
3182 root 2244 S dnsmasq -u root -g root --conf-file=/tmp/dnsmasq.conf --cache-size=1500 --dhcp-option=252," "
3402 root 716 S cron
3448 root 1612 S process_monitor
3742 root 3756 S httpd -p 80
3902 root 1564 S wland
3903 root 1124 S udhcpc -i vlan2 -p /var/run/udhcpc.pid -s /tmp/udhcpc -O routes -O msstaticroutes -O staticroutes
3926 root 1128 S -sh
4081 root 0 SW [kworker/0:1]
4176 root 0 SW [kworker/0:0]
4191 root 1124 R ps
:~#

[lexridge]

Why does this router only have 64KB of NVRAM? My EA2700 has 256KB, and it is a pretty crappy router in comparison. Is it possible to increase the NVRAM in the EA8500?

[Handyone]

[lexridge]

[mrjcd]

[tatsuya46]

not even close to filling the nvram anyway, & qca doesnt have the linksys EA series cfe issue over 32kb, so wheres the issue.? more nvram =/= performance or range etc

[lexridge]

It is not an issue or an advantage AFAIK, but I just remember I was very limited and running out of NVRAM on my WRT54GLs, especially when trying to get OpenVPN set up. Then again, it only had 32KB so there ya go!

I definitely could see a large countries blocking in iptables eating up large portions of NVRAM for sure however.