[Ewrt-devel] For those having problems
Irving Popovetsky
Mon Jun 28 17:01:46 PDT 2004
Nice work, Darren. Could you send us (perhaps privately) the long
story sometime? I'd like to get this problem understood and fixed
before the next release if possible.
-Irving
On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 05:06, Eck, Darren wrote:
> I like some others on the list had problems with the EWRT not capturing
> wireless clients. Also, there were other intermittent problems,
> sometimes it would not capture anything, and sometimes it would not
> route anything. It was very strange. I noticed that in the
> /tmp/services.out file there were error messages stating that there was
> no rule/chain by that name.
>
> The short story is that I figured out the problem. Something is
> deleting the firewall rules at the same time that the initialize.fw is
> trying to create and configure them. I am assuming it is the reset.fw
> script.
>
> If I put a sleep 10 line in the beginning of the initialize.fw script,
> everything works like a charm. I don't' see the error messages in the
> /tmp/services.out file, and both wireless and LAN clients are captured.
>
> I really don't see the purpose of the reset.fw command, as the rules are
> deleted in the initialize.fw script.
>
> I like others are running EWRT on a brand new wrt54g, maybe the newer
> hardware is optimized somehow, and for us, the commands are stomping on
> each other. This would explain why many don't' experience this problem
> at all.
>
> Thanks to all who have contributed to EWRT so far,
>
> Darren.
>
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