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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
I did a pinhole reset and a power cycle. (A pinhole reset doesn't reset to factory defaults unless pressed and held for X seconds.) I did not do a hard reset to restore to factory defaults at that point. I have since. I think it's an ex-WRT54G...  |
Right, the hold-for-x-seconds thing is where there is variance between router makes...see, I told you I was tired!
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
No, that's fine. You have no way to know my level of expertise. As it happens, I've been in IT in one manner or another for about 20 years, starting on IBM mainframes and working sideways and down. Most recently it's been Solaris and Linux admin among other things, and I have Win2K, WinXP, Ubuntu and Puppy Linux up at home. So I do know a little about this stuiff...
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Started on an Apple IIe back when no one outside an office knew who Microsoft was. Also had a little Timex Sinclair 1000 (in the UK it was a ZX81 or somesuch) which used the TV as a monitor and saved programs on cassette tape; problem was getting a tape recorder to record with no noise, else you would corrupt the data. I'd love a *nix admin job; server at work is running Oracle 8i on a copy of NT that's so old the version number is negative, and AS400 on a recently-relocated remote server which has been responsible for 22 hours of downtime this week alone. I come home to my ArchLinux64 workstation, and...you know those fabric-softener commercials where the person throws a window open and suddenly the air is fresh and everything is beautiful? It's kinda like that only not as melodramatic; also I'm not that good-looking.
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
About the time Cisco acquired them?
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I thought that happened later but it would neatly explain a few things.
I wanted to OpenWRT a 54G series just for the SNMP functionality since I had Comcast at the time when they started capping and (openly) throttling, and I wasn't about to take them at their word on usage numbers. Now that I don't have that issue to deal with, I can't personally justify hacking a router to get it to do what it should do in the first place. I got a D-Link DIR-655 for the Gig-E speed (hosting virtual machines on a RAID-10 array) and it "just works".
And seriously, I know the Belkin is a throwaway piece (got it from Wallyworld) but for the price...well, I bought a second one after all, and I'm not rationalizing when I say the electrics are iffy in this place.