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Hidden Features in BEFW11S4 Firmware v1.39.2

For those who miss the diagnostic logging that was in some of the prior firmware, if you turn on the System Logger, you get it back. Thanks jbordens.

reply to The Jake7
Interestingly, the logging options are available in v1.38.5 of the BEFSR41 firmware...

The difference between USA and Japan WECA standards has to do with how many channels are available in the different regulatory domains. I don't have a clue about Default/TX/RX, though. Sorry
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reply to The Jake7
Can someone from Linksys comment on this?

reply to The Jake7
Did anyone get that logger/view thing to work.. I cant seem to get it to work I get..
** Script Error: teller has no value
** Where: save-user
** Near: teller "Unable to save settings in your user.r file." none
** Press enter to quit...

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Did anyone get that logger/view thing to work.. I cant seem to get it to work I get..
** Script Error: teller has no value
** Where: save-user
** Near: teller "Unable to save settings in your user.r file." none
** Press enter to quit...

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reply to The Jake7
»www.bttsoftware.co.uk/snmptrap.html

I just tried it, and SNMP Trap Watcher is another alternative to my TinyLogger.r

It does receive all of the various different SNMP messages that you're interested in.

Jake

reply to The Jake7
That SNMP prog worked thanx!

reply to The Jake7
If I am not having any problems with Linksys, should I update the firmware?
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reply to The Jake7
When you turn on the extended logging functions, you get interesting log entries such as:

PPP Rx: [1], proto=c021 code=10 sid=21a5, state=255
PPP Rx: [1], proto=c021 code=9 sid=21a5, state=255
PPP Rx: [1], echo request
PPP Tx: [1], proto=c021 code=10 sid=21a5, state=255
PPP Tx: [1], echo reply

Does anyone know anything about what these are? I know that they're PPPoE realted... and that Protocol c021 is the Link Control Protocol, and Code 10 is Echo Reply and Code 9 Is echo Request... However there are more code 10's and 9's than "Echo request" and "echo reply" entries...

Also there are entries like this:
[00:17:04]: free=447

Its free something, but doesn't change much. Memory? Entries in the NAT table? What?

How about these:
sizeof( NV_data ) = 4264
Send: PADI,PoE Type=1
Recv: PADO
(AC Cookie)
Send: PADR
(AC Cookie)
Recv: PADS (session id: 0x2227)

NV_data? Non Volitle Data? PADS is PPPoE Active Discovery Session-confirmation, PADO is PPPoE Active Discovery Offer, PADR is PPPoE Active Discovery Request... what about "AC Cookie"?

Also, is the "-- connection established. (count:1, session id:2227)" log entry only for PPPoE? Are there other log entries for RAS? (or straight WAN network DHCP)?

I'd like to put together some sort of reference for people to look at and understand all this info coming from their router.

Jake

reply to The Jake7
BTW: The log manage (undocumented) feature also works on my BEFSR41 !
»admin:admin@192.168.1.1/LogManage.htm where "admin" is username and password

I'LL BE DAMNED. It's in 1.39 (Jun 04 2001) too. Sheesh. Been sitting here whining about them taking SNMP logging out of the firmware for months now and it was there all along, just turned off.

Thank You!

reply to shlexa
That is an excellent tip, just for the hell of it I used admin as username and my router password and it works! I'm so happy now we got SNMP logging to work.
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I feel both stupid and angry at Linksys. How many times have we directly asked the Linksys techs about this and gotten no response, while it was there all along, just turned off? Grrrr. I hate it when companies do stuff like that.

I'm a happy camper again now too. Fired up SNMPTrap again and am off to the error logging races again.

Hmmm I wonder if Linksys Techs even knew about this. It wouldn't surprise me at all if they didn't. I'm running firmware 1.40.2, the latest btw, still have to make sure SNMP is logging.
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reply to The Jake7
Wall Watcher also appears to work.

reply to The Jake7
Just ramping up to speed here.... I'm using the 3 port + USB Linky here... Reason I'm using the '31' model is because I'm connecting to computer via USB, not ethernet. I've printed out the links mentioned above, and haven't tried anything yet. V1.39.1 firmware in Linky... Anyone know if this model does anything different than what was posted, or have tried the procedure listed above?

Thanks... Jan
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Give that URL a shot it should work, I think, but I'm pretty sure you will tell us.
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reply to The Jake7
It works for the 8 port on FW v2.40.2 also, I can report.

John N.

reply to The Jake7
NOTE:

IF you use special characters in your password-

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