Hi everyone.
As you can see I haven't gone totally dark
Just a bit preoccupied with my BGW-XP --> BGW-7 migration which is going rather slowly at the moment. A combination of my lack of familiarity with BGW-7 and the need to find replacements for incompatible software. Naturally this includes both defrag
and backup tools of course
The GUI seems fine except for one minor quirk:
The unlabelled tab is for BT Agent. This has been removed, but the empty tab remains.
heh. Tracking down the cause of that 'minor quirk' was rather time consuming and nearly drove me batty at the time. I simply could not see what I was missing. In the end it appears to have been a browser issue. I cleared my browser cache for an unrelated reason and it just disappeared.
I'm one of those who had a problem (although I'm not a 'nay-sayer'). In my case I'm using the HG612 as a modem/router on an ADSL2+ connection, and the problem probably relates to the routing functions, so it's not relevant to those using it as a modem only.
I think by 'nay-sayers', he means those idiots who are not actually having any problems, don't know any one who is, but still scream 'Danger Will Robinson' because they
think they saw the screen flicker when they jumped up and down while waving a Kosher Chapati in front of their face.
In the case of the UDP problem identified by Adrian over at AAISP, it doesn't appear to affect unlocked modems or those on a dynamic ip service, ie. BT Infinity.
Sadly I still have no idea what is causing your issue or how to cure it.
That also means, if I didn't want to use Wolf's FW or I get issues in future, I have options and workarounds. I can switch to any other firmware, list my desired changes, and either (a) flash Wolfs FW, change, save, revert to preferred FW, or (b) manually edit the saved XML config now that I have at least some reasonable saved config as a starting point, since "upload config" was working anyway, or even (c) use the squashfs webGUI unpacker/repacker to compare the GUI side and see if I can manually add the "save config" fix to the old FW.
Adding the save config fix to one of the old firmwares is fairly straight forward. Look for the following option in the defaultcfg.xml:- SaveCfgEnable="0" (It's at the end of a line starting with '<X_ATP_ServiceManage'). Simply change that to a '1' and rebuild.
This isn't necessary if you're uploading a saved config from either my B028SP10 or B030SP06 builds as it's already included in the default, but you will lose the option again if you reset to the default config.
On the other issues - Telnet seems "odd". It was inaccessible, and then later became accessible, under the firmware I (and BritBrat) first referenced, but I don't know what made the difference - not firewall on the client for sure. Then when I switched to Wolf's firmware it's stopped working again and I haven't got in since. I am not sure that's anything to do with Wolf's FW or not though, since it wasn't consistent on the other FW either and I don't know what factors affected it. Login timeout not played with yet so no idea if it's telnet only timeout, or GUI too. I wish it was clearer if ":5" timeout was intended to mean 5 seconds or 5 minutes! Haven't looked for Firewall log yet but my back-end router handles that for the LAN, so this would just be covering connection attempts to the HG612 itself.
Yes, very odd... It certainly sounds like a client-side issue but I assume you've checked that.
I've never had any reason to alter the web interface timeout so I can't say for sure if Asbo's instructions relate to that or telnet. As it's the ATP console I'd hazard a guess it's the former.
This most likely candidate from the config file if you're looking for a more permanent change:- <X_ATP_Web Timeout="5" Language="Chinese"/>