http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20252126 en Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:33:04 EDT Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:33:04 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20252126 More Fiber : When you do a hard reset on the router, the log is lost.

BTW, what firmware revision do you have?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20252126 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:03:44 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20251712 Kevin210 : I was wondering what the SURFCONTROL was about. Thanks. I all makes sense now. Does the router produce a log when it gets frozen or crashes?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20251712 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:28:11 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20250778 More Fiber : Certainly a sticky or FAQ for decoding the Actiontec log is a good idea.

What exactly is your question? Unfortunately, the log reset when you rebooted, so no way to determine why it locked up from the log.

The log does look like a typical boot of the Actiontec. It loads the Linux kernel, low level drivers, services, and requests a DHCP address assignment. Nothing unusual there.

One odd thing, but nothing to be worried about. The SURFCONTROL entries at the top look like the old (blue Mega Control Panel) parental controls that required a paid subscription. SURFCONTROL did access cpahk.powernethk.com for it's blocking list, so I would not be worried about those entries. Support for SURFCONTROL was dropped when VZ when to the red VZ branded pages in the router (4.0.16.45.160 firmware)

What firmware are you running? If you are on reasonably current firmware, it would seem that SURFCONTROL is still embedded in the firmware even though support for it has been dropped. There were at least a few unhappy users that paid for the subscription only to find that VZ forced a firmware upgrade on them that removed support for SURFCONTROL. See this thread:
»Re: New ActionTec Firmware - MI424WR.rmt_4.0.16.1.45.160.rmt]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20250778 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 01:20:12 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20250406 Kevin210 : I think we need a sticky on whats going on in the Actiontec System Log.

My internet suddenly locked up. Router lights looked fine. Powered router off then on. Now its working.

Mar 29 23:03:27 2008 Security Log User authentication success Username: admin
Mar 29 23:03:26 2008 System Log Message daemon.info SURFCONTROL: Current CPA Server host = cpahk.powernethk.com, location = Hong Kong
Mar 29 23:03:26 2008 System Log Message daemon.err Got error 10 from CPA server
Mar 29 23:03:26 2008 System Log Message daemon.info SURFCONTROL: Current CPA Server host = cpauk2.powernethk.com, location = UK
Mar 29 23:03:26 2008 System Log Message daemon.err Got error 10 from CPA server
Mar 29 23:03:26 2008 System Log Message daemon.info SURFCONTROL: Current CPA Server host = cpauk1.powernethk.com, location = UK
Mar 29 23:03:26 2008 System Log Message daemon.err Got error 10 from CPA server
Mar 29 23:03:26 2008 System Log Message daemon.info SURFCONTROL: Current CPA Server host = cpausa.powernethk.com, location = USA
Mar 29 23:03:26 2008 System Log Message daemon.err Got error 10 from CPA server
Mar 29 23:03:25 2008 System Log Message daemon.info Generic proxy: Expiry date: Not Found
Mar 29 23:03:25 2008 System Log Message daemon.info Generic Proxy: server list: cpausa.powernethk.com,USA,cpauk1.powernethk.com,UK,cpauk2.powernethk.com,UK,cpahk.powernethk.com,Hong Kong
Mar 29 23:03:38 2008 System Log Message daemon.info TOD got new time 1206846205
Mar 29 23:03:37 2008 System Log Message daemon.info mt_conn_wizard_close:270: Conn Wizard: Wizard is being closed.
Mar 29 23:03:37 2008 System Log Message daemon.info dhcp client: WAN MoCA renew dns server: 71.243.0.12 68.237.161.12
Mar 29 23:03:37 2008 System Log Message daemon.info dhcp client: WAN MoCA renew gateway: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
Mar 29 23:03:37 2008 System Log Message daemon.info dhcp client: WAN MoCA renew netmask: 255.255.255.0
Mar 29 23:03:37 2008 System Log Message daemon.info dhcp client: WAN MoCA renew ip address: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
Mar 29 23:03:37 2008 System Log Message daemon.info update_conn_wizard_status:72: Conn Wizard: DHCP detected, Closing
Mar 29 23:03:27 2008 System Log Message kern.info device clink1 entered promiscuous mode
Mar 29 23:03:27 2008 System Log Message daemon.info ppp: PPP kernel driver loaded
Mar 29 23:03:27 2008 System Log Message daemon.info clink1: dns server:
Mar 29 23:03:27 2008 System Log Message daemon.info clink1: gateway: 0.0.0.0
Mar 29 23:03:27 2008 System Log Message daemon.info clink1: netmask: 0.0.0.0
Mar 29 23:03:27 2008 System Log Message daemon.info clink1: ip address: 0.0.0.0
Mar 29 23:03:27 2008 System Log Message daemon.info clink1: link up
Mar 29 23:03:26 2008 System Log Message daemon.info mt_conn_wizard_open:425: Conn Wizard: no need to open connection wizard for dev: clink1.
Mar 29 23:03:26 2008 System Log Message daemon.info clink0: dns server:
Mar 29 23:03:26 2008 System Log Message daemon.info clink0: gateway: 0.0.0.0
Mar 29 23:03:26 2008 System Log Message daemon.info clink0: netmask: 0.0.0.0
Mar 29 23:03:26 2008 System Log Message daemon.info clink0: ip address: 0.0.0.0
Mar 29 23:03:26 2008 System Log Message daemon.info clink0: link up
Mar 29 23:03:26 2008 System Log Message kern.alert Clink Link Up
[repeated 2 times, last time on Mar 29 23:03:26 2008]
Mar 29 23:03:26 2008 System Log Message kern.info device ath0 entered promiscuous mode
Mar 29 23:03:26 2008 System Log Message kern.info device ath0 left promiscuous mode
Mar 29 23:03:26 2008 System Log Message kern.info device ath0 entered promiscuous mode
Mar 29 23:03:26 2008 System Log Message kern.info device ixp1 entered promiscuous mode
Mar 29 23:03:26 2008 System Log Message kern.info Freeing modfs memory: 2052K
Mar 29 23:03:26 2008 System Log Message kern.notice Linux Clink Ethernet driver version 2.33.0.0 (Mar.3, 2006)
Mar 29 23:03:26 2008 System Log Message kern.info wlan: mac acl policy registered
Mar 29 23:03:26 2008 System Log Message kern.info wifi0: Atheros 5212: mem=0x4bfa0000, irq=24
Mar 29 23:03:26 2008 System Log Message kern.info ath_pci: 0.9.4.5 (Atheros/multi-bss)
Mar 29 23:03:26 2008 System Log Message kern.info ath_rate_atheros: Version 2.0.1
Mar 29 23:03:26 2008 System Log Message kern.info ath_hal: 0.9.17.1 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413, REGOPS_FUNC)
Mar 29 23:03:26 2008 System Log Message kern.info wlan: 0.8.4.2 (Atheros/multi-bss)
Mar 29 23:03:26 2008 System Log Message kern.notice 0x00000000-0x00800000 : "openrg"
Mar 29 23:03:26 2008 System Log Message kern.notice Creating 1 MTD partitions on "IXP425 Flash Bank 0":
Mar 29 23:03:26 2008 System Log Message kern.notice cfi_cmdset_0001: Erase suspend on write enabled
Mar 29 23:03:26 2008 System Log Message kern.info Freeing init memory: 224K
Mar 29 23:03:26 2008 System Log Message kern.info Freeing init cramfs memory: 64K
Mar 29 23:03:26 2008 System Log Message kern.alert All bugs added by David S. Miller
Mar 29 23:03:26 2008 System Log Message kern.alert 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 Ben Greear
Mar 29 23:03:26 2008 System Log Message kern.info NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
Mar 29 23:03:26 2008 System Log Message kern.info TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 4096)
Mar 29 23:03:26 2008 System Log Message kern.info IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
Mar 29 23:03:26 2008 System Log Message kern.info IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
Mar 29 23:03:26 2008 System Log Message kern.info NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
Mar 29 23:03:26 2008 System Log Message kern.info ttyS01 at 0xff001003 (irq = 13) is a XScale UART
Mar 29 23:03:26 2008 System Log Message kern.info ttyS00 at 0xff000003 (irq = 15) is a XScale UART
Mar 29 23:03:26 2008 System Log Message kern.info Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
Mar 29 23:03:26 2008 System Log Message kern.info Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Mar 29 23:03:26 2008 System Log Message kern.info Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20250406 Sat, 29 Mar 2008 23:12:20 EDT