Recent content by Ian Barton

Try logging into the router via ssh and run: ip a That should give you a list of the interfaces. If your modem is recognised it will probably be either usb0 or ppp0: 10: usb0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,10000> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000 link/ether 02:64:02:6e:0b:02 brd...

What I would like to achieve is to have all traffic except the Netflix block of IP addresses routed through my ADSL ethernet connection (slow about 4Mbits). Anything for Netflix should get routed via the 3g phone connected to USB (about 15Mbits). I already know how to do this over a single...

Having installed Merlin, I wanted to try out Android tethering. This works with a Moto G. However, on the Nexus 5, the usb tether button on the phone either won't let me set it, or turns itself off after a couple of seconds, so no connectivity. The Asus reports the phone as a Nexus 5 and says...

Everyone except me was out this afternoon, so I installed the latest stable version of Merlin and pppoe worked first time. I have restarted the system a few times and it reconnects reliably. I have a few more questions, but I''l start separate threads for them.

Thanks, I'll give it another try over the weekend. I need to get up early, so I can have a couple of hours when nobody else in the house wants to use the Internet!

Sorry for delayed reply. I have been away for a couple of days. My password is set by my ISP and consists of letters, numbers and a period. I reconnected the Billion modem to my Arch software router and set up a cron job, running script, that toggled the connection every 5 minutes for an hour...

Thanks for the feedback. I am 99.9999% sure it's not a user name password error, as I copy paste them from my ASCII file. Also I did triple check that they were correct:)

I have just bought one of these. I am connecting to an ADSL line via a Billion modem/router in bridge mode. I have used the Billion for several years with a variety of software routers based on either Ubuntu or Arch and had no problems connecting. However, the Asus won't connect via pppoe and...