Am 1/13/14 11:39 AM, schrieb Hanno Schupp:
> I am working on improved support for the Skyline SL-R7205 Wireless 3G
> Router (hence my previously submitted patches)but have struck a dead end on
> a particular issue. I found that during boot the device acts like dumb
> switch, allowing traffic to pass through for a short time. I attached
> serial cable and I have looked at the dhcp traffic using tcpdump in
> relation to the boot process, and found that right at the beginning of the
> UBoot managed boot process my PC send DHCP request, which pass through the
> Skylink router and are responded to by my ADSL modem. This occurs while
> UBOOT is in control of the boot process, way before even the kernel has
> been unpacked and OpenWrt begins to boot.
> 
> The version used of UBoot is '1.1.3 (Apr 29 2009 - 12:08:28)', which is
> almost 5 years old. Strangely the boot process then states a few lines down
> that it is 'Ralink UBoot Version: 3.3'. I am not clear what that means in
> relation to the UBoot version number.
> 
> Does anyone know whether the traffic leakage during early boot process
> before firmware booting a common know issue of UBoot ON RALINK/MIPS that
> has since been addressed?
> In any case, I would like to replace the bootloader with a more current
> version, but do not know what version I should use nor how that is done.
> Yes, I have googled for some hints, but have not found a meaningful how-to
> that would apply to Ralink.
> 
> Does anyone have any pointers or advice?
> 
> 
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known issue :) you need to update your uboot. this is due to a bas
switch config during boot

        John
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