On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tedm@ipinc.net">tedm@ipinc.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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For example, the D-link DIR-655 firmware proudly proclaims itself "bittorrent certified"<br>
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What the hell is that? Who but some gamer gives a fig about that?<br>
To me that merely means that the gamer running bittorrent only has<br>
to power-cycle his router every day instead of every hour - but he's<br>
still not going to blink an eye on having to power-cycle his router<br>
at all.<font color="#888888"></font></blockquote><div><br>IIRC, the problem with Bittorrent on the first Linux based routers (Linksys WRT54G, for example), was that the timeout for a particular NAT table was set too high, and could be exhausted with a high rate of TCP connection turnover. DD-WRT et al provided better sane defaults, and gave users access to the right knobs to prevent this problem. <br>
<br>If I were an engineer at D-link observing this situation, I'd be proud of fixing the problem in a stock configuration, and might even whisper to the marketing department too... Silly, yes. But it makes a bit of sense. <br>
<br>Why you're conflating Bittorrent traffic with gamers, I don't know. However, having lived with gamers, I can tell you that they most certainly care about such things (latency, reliability) more than other users. If my torrent traffic impeded a marathon gaming session and caused connections to drop, I have no doubt that I'd soon know what an aluminum baseball bat sounds like bouncing off a steel computer case.<br>
<br>ObIPv6 question: Anyone know if other third party firmwares have IPv6 plans in the works, eg the Tomato firmware? DD-WRT is great, but for "normal users", I find Tomato a great drop in replacement for situations where a friend needs a hand, and I never want to touch the equipment ever again. <br>
<br>-Nick<br></div></div>