OT: What we want are things that work; what we get is technology

[Bill Bogstad]

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Daniel Feenberg <feenberg-fCu/yNAGv6M at public.gmane.org> wrote:
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> On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Richard Pieri wrote:
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>> On Mar 8, 2010, at 2:19 PM, Rajiv Aaron Manglani wrote:
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>>> try it first without the cron job. from my Asus WL-500gP v2 access
>>> point/router running tomato firmware, services five wireless and many
>>> more wired clients:
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>>> 14:18:04 up 466 days, 15:32, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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>>> no troubles with it at all.
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>> Which really means that the combination of that particular hardware,
>> firmware, and your use habits make it suck less.  I'd bet a Hershey's
>> bar that if I put it on my network I'd have it wibbling in the corner
>> within a month.
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> I have run through half a dozen or more residential grade wifi routers in
> the past few years, and most fail in two ways:
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>   1) Stop handing out DHCP addresses, but otherwise work, and can be
>      fixed temporarily with a reboot

I think I may have figured out why I don't have problems with my
Linksys  router(5?? years old at this point).  I don't have it do
anything besides routing/NAT.   I do all my DHCP/DNS from my Linux
servers.  That way I can run bind and the ISC? dhcp server not the cut
down stuff that the vendor stuffs in the firmware.

Bill Bogstad