[OpenWrt-Devel] [WDR3600] factory using WPS-button and tftp doesn't work anymore (new hardware?)

2015-07-29 Thread Leon George
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Hi :-)

briefing:
the automatic flashing-process - holding down the WPS-button in order
to flash an image downloaded via TFTP - no longer works for certain
WDR3600-devices with hardware revision 1.5 that have only minor
(visible) differences to working devices with the same revision.

.. this is going to be long - sorry for that.
i'm trying to provide as many details as possible.

I'm working on a factory-process for TP-Link WDR3600.
Last week we have encountered an error where we were (
headache-english :-D ) not able to flash the last shipment using an
automated process.
There seems to be new hardware with the revision still being 1.5 but
the u-boot behaving differently.

- From the outside, these devices look quite similar - the only
differences we've found so far are:
- -there are four labels on the backside (as opposed to 3) the new one
showing custom SSIDs (much like the one on the Archer-C5)
- -a label on the inside on the yellow LAN-ports has a string 4FC-1,
which we have not seen yet - the working boards have 3FC-3

The only way to flash our image to this new hardware is to either:
- -flash manually using the u-boot-prompt (t ; e; cp.b; reset)
- -upload it to the firmware-update-page of the stock-firmware
The images then boot and seem to be happy.

That, however, is not acceptable for a factory-process..
Turns out that our image was 6815748 bytes in size (we forked from
openwrt a while ago) which is not accepted by these new devices using
the existing process. The router instantly resets after the firmware
has been received (before hte flash is erased).
Have a look at Flashing via TFTP in
http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wdr4300 to see what we're doing
- - no magic involved :-)

'wrong_filesize.log' contains the serial-output when the file size is
not 'correct'.

So far, i've come to the conclusion that only files with size 8192512
/ $7D0200 (bigger than the rootfs-mtd!) make it past the tftp download.
I've tried padding the file with \x00 or \xFF. The file is then copied
to the flash but will not boot.
See 'successfull_flash.log' for the output.
Notice the 'boot up image' after the transmission. 
You can see the error while booting at the end of that file (LZMA-length
).

The last thing i've tried, is to use an image produces from
OpenWRT-trunk - i gather you have introduced padding to the image
since our fork. That image would also NOT be copied to the flash.
Flashing does work if the file is padded to the 'magic' size but the
boot-issue remains.



I'm still working on this and will keep you informed - but if anyone
of you has an idea on how to address this issue.. any help would be
highly appreciated!

The next thing on my TODO-list is to see how the image can be modified
to make it boot. I'm comparing it to the firmware-upgrades from
TP-Link (which do work using this process).

But first: a good night's sleep :-p

hoping this might help someone,


kind regards,
nice evenings to you,

Leon M. George
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U-Boot 1.1.4 (Oct 21 2014 - 12:49:00)

U-boot DB120


DRAM:  128 MB
id read 0x10ff
flash size 8MB, sector count = 128
Flash:  8 MB
Using default environment

PCIe Reset OK!!
In:serial
Out:   serial
Err:   serial
Net:   ag934x_enet_initialize...
No valid address in Flash. Using fixed address
 wasp  reset mask:c03300 
WASP   S17 PHY *
: cfg1 0x7 cfg2 0x7114
eth0: ba:be:fa:ce:08:41
athrs17_reg_init: complete
eth0 up
eth0
dup 1 speed 1000
Using eth0 device
TFTP from server 192.168.0.66; our IP address is 192.168.0.86
Filename 'wdr3600v1_tp_recovery.bin'.
Load address: 0x8006
Loading: #
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Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [WDR3600] factory using WPS-button and tftp doesn't work anymore (new hardware?)

2015-07-30 Thread Leon George
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Just in case anybody was following this;

i've worked around the issue by prepending the first 257 blocks from
an official firmware-upgrade and than padding to the required size
(8192512).

It seems that the automatic process now expects u-boot and and an
ominous info-block to also be contained in the image.

that might not be the proper solution. if anyone of you has a better
idea - i'd like to hear it :-)

kind regards

On 29.07.2015 20:20, Leon George wrote:
 Hi :-)
 
 briefing: the automatic flashing-process - holding down the 
 WPS-button in order to flash an image downloaded via TFTP - no 
 longer works for certain WDR3600-devices with hardware revision
 1.5 that have only minor (visible) differences to working devices
 with the same revision.
 
 .. this is going to be long - sorry for that. i'm trying to
 provide as many details as possible.
 
 I'm working on a factory-process for TP-Link WDR3600. Last week we 
 have encountered an error where we were ( headache-english :-D ) 
 not able to flash the last shipment using an automated process. 
 There seems to be new hardware with the revision still being 1.5 
 but the u-boot behaving differently.
 
 From the outside, these devices look quite similar - the only 
 differences we've found so far are: -there are four labels on the 
 backside (as opposed to 3) the new one showing custom SSIDs (much 
 like the one on the Archer-C5) -a label on the inside on the
 yellow LAN-ports has a string 4FC-1, which we have not seen yet -
 the working boards have 3FC-3
 
 The only way to flash our image to this new hardware is to either: 
 -flash manually using the u-boot-prompt (t ; e; cp.b; reset) 
 -upload it to the firmware-update-page of the stock-firmware The 
 images then boot and seem to be happy.
 
 That, however, is not acceptable for a factory-process.. Turns out 
 that our image was 6815748 bytes in size (we forked from openwrt a 
 while ago) which is not accepted by these new devices using the 
 existing process. The router instantly resets after the firmware 
 has been received (before hte flash is erased). Have a look at 
 Flashing via TFTP in 
 http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wdr4300 to see what we're 
 doing - no magic involved :-)
 
 'wrong_filesize.log' contains the serial-output when the file size 
 is not 'correct'.
 
 So far, i've come to the conclusion that only files with size 
 8192512 / $7D0200 (bigger than the rootfs-mtd!) make it past the 
 tftp download. I've tried padding the file with \x00 or \xFF. The 
 file is then copied to the flash but will not boot. See 
 'successfull_flash.log' for the output. Notice the 'boot up image' 
 after the transmission.  You can see the error while booting 
 at the end of that file (LZMA-length ).
 
 The last thing i've tried, is to use an image produces from 
 OpenWRT-trunk - i gather you have introduced padding to the image 
 since our fork. That image would also NOT be copied to the flash. 
 Flashing does work if the file is padded to the 'magic' size but 
 the boot-issue remains.
 
 
 
 I'm still working on this and will keep you informed - but if 
 anyone of you has an idea on how to address this issue.. any help 
 would be highly appreciated!
 
 The next thing on my TODO-list is to see how the image can be 
 modified to make it boot. I'm comparing it to the
 firmware-upgrades from TP-Link (which do work using this process).
 
 But first: a good night's sleep :-p
 
 hoping this might help someone,
 
 
 kind regards, nice evenings to you,
 
 Leon M. George
 
 
 
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[OpenWrt-Devel] [L2TP] Bad UDP Checksum on TP-LINK hardware

2016-07-28 Thread Leon George
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Hi :-)

The UDP checksum for outgoing L2TP datagrams seems to be broken.
It has been tested with TP-LINK's WR842n, WDR3600, and WDR4300.
On two normal Linux computers it's working.

We've tried disabling UDP offloading using ethtool without success.

Is there any way we can make OpenWRT emit the datagrams with the
checksum in place?

This shows up in Wireshark. The first two datagrams are being received
on the other side. The ones after the l2tp aren't.

#this is received on the other end. normal udp
14.6944 UDP 575 52958 → 53201  Len=513
14.8159 UDP 152 53201 → 52958  Len=90
#ip l2tp add tunnel tunnel_id 52958 peer_tunnel_id 53201 encap udp
local '2001:920:18ae:3:20b:c0ff:fe46:42b0' udp_sport 52958 remote
'2a03:b0c0:3:d0::bb5:6001' udp_dport 53201
14.9130 UDP 184 52958 → 53201  Len=122 [ILLEGAL CHECKSUM (0)]
15.3230 UDP 152 52958 → 53201  Len=90 [ILLEGAL CHECKSUM (0)]
15.6929 UDP 184 52958 → 53201  Len=122 [ILLEGAL CHECKSUM (0)]
15.8198 UDP 164 53201 → 52958  Len=102

hoping somebody has an idea :-)

cu,
Leon
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