Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2015 17:49 Post subject: Linksys EA6500 Best Build?
What's the best build for Linksys EA 6500 V2. I was just able to revive and restore it back(from a bad flash) to bld23194 and I just put it back in service.
I may be wrong, but I would expect the EA6500v2 to react the same as the EA6300 and the EA6900. These work well with r28366. If you move to the latest r28374, then the ssh daemon fails to start.
That said, I have had good luck with r27506 and r27600 on the EA6500v1.
I suggest you start somewhere around there, or the r27858 abalian mentioned, then look at the changelog summaries Kryptex kindly provides with the release announcements to see if there is something you think you need.
PS, it is a bit of a risk, unless you see someone else with a v2 made it past r27858.
I've just checked and NVRAM was reworked in 27834-27843 for Atheros & Ralink ONLY. On those platforms, it introduced a memory leak issue which led to increased memory usage starting with build 27858 http://svn.dd-wrt.com/ticket/4883
Broadcom/MIPS units were not specifically affected with build 27858, since it had the same memory leak already since 21846 !!!http://svn.dd-wrt.com/changeset/21846 From this point of view, 27858 is "fine" on Broadcom.
However, 27944 introduced other NVRAM-related problems which completely crashed Broadcom.
To summarize the NVRAM-related memory leak (increased RAM usage) issue:
For Atheros & Ralink:
Introduced in 27838-27843
Fixed in 28078, 28082-28083
For Broadcom/MIPS:
Introduced in 21846
Fixed in 28085 _________________ THERE ARE NO STRANGERS HERE; ONLY FRIENDS YOU HAVEN'T YET MET.
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I might be picking up an EA6500v2 in the next few days and wanted to have a stable build ready to flash that's not going to brick me or anything like that.
Not really finding a consensus on what's safe to use, or whether or not it's safe to use the latest 28598 on this.
It works and does not appear to brick the router, but it is unstable.
I have not gotten the router to run through the night. It is always dead by morning. Cycling power brings it back.
Also, I have not been able to get Static Leases to work.
I am planning to revert to 28211 as recommended by maiki.
I suspect that there may be a more useful place that I can post this information. I would also imagine that there are diagnostic outputs that would help to diagnose the instability in 28846. If someone would point me in the right direction I would be happy to provide any useful debug info... and I would also be delighted to put it in the right place!
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