On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 16:26 -0600, Erik R. Jensen wrote: > Corey Edwards wrote: > > The new Actiontecs are pretty awesome. Why I had one that lasted for 15 > > whole minutes before I wanted to throw it out the window. That's gotta > > be some kinda record there. > > I have an Actiontec 701WG. One thing that has improved uptime for me has > been to reboot the router, then log into the busybox shell on the router > and execute the following: > > echo 8192 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_max > > echo 3600 > > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_tcp_timeout_established > > echo 60 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_tcp_timeout_close_wait > > I had some large rsync processes that caused me uptime problems and > changing these netfilter parameters on the router helped immensely. The > defaults were pretty lame. The settings do not stick on a reboot.
That's good info to keep in mind. I've seen all sorts of random and negative behavior from Actiontecs. For mine, I actually got it to stabilize simply by turning off wireless. Now that it's just an ethernet router, it's much better behaved. I also avoid making changes to it like the plague because it used to occasionally default itself. Not cool. Corey /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
