Recent content by JefferMC

My topology is pretty easy. Router and AP on fairly opposite ends of the building and on different floors. They're about 50 feet apart. Which means that their field overlaps some. You want it to overlap a little because you don't want dead areas. I think I'm going to let it sit for a few...

In AI MESH, the software gives them both the same channel. If the AP is separate, I can set the channels such that they're not broadcasting on the same frequencies, and thus the signals are not interfering nearly as badly as if they're at the same channel (using AI MESH removes this ability)...

Okay... First, thanks for all the feedback! Yes, the switch is managed (and is running VLANs), so that explains why it wouldn't sync up through it. Dang... I bought the RT-AX68U on sale (and not a very big one) last summer, then didn't have time to deal with putting it in for months...

This is probably a dead horse, but searching through the AI Mesh threads didn't seem to answer my questions, so, please tolerate me (or refer me to the existing thread I missed): I have a RT-AX68U installed as my third generation ASUS Router. It does a decent job of covering the house, even...

VLANs on a single switch do not require tagging, at least on real switches. I suppose this lightweight SoC implementation puts tags on them so it can deal with it?

Even as stripped down as it is, you could not possibly confuse this router with a dumb switch.

This looks worse than it is, due to offsets in the collection; low one interval, then catches up the next (or vice versa). I have an expensive switch with SNMP that I could just create a two-port VLAN on and pass the data through it, but it's really not worth that. I get that this is a...

Tagging and logical interfaces would seem to be two different things. I would expect the logical interface to exist and the counters to be collected. IIRC, VLAN2 shows up if you turn on the IPTV feature as that seems to be implemented as a VLAN.

And would hurt performance (or would gut Hardware Acceleration). I would at least think the WAN port would be a dedicated VLAN, though.

To me that seems a strange architecture for a ROUTER.

ifconfig shows no VLAN2. I have a VLAN2 counter, but the OpStatus is down, and the counter sits at 0. I assumed that if I turned on IPTV, then this would be multicast traffic on the ports that were IPTV and LAN1 would lose the multicast traffic. I've got the traffic measuring by IP feature...

I decided to graph the other counters and see what I saw and to graph the difference between what I expected (Gateway eth0 in) and what I was getting from the ASUS eth0 out. Bottom center is the difference between them. Notice how nicely it correlates to vlan1 out (upper right, green)...

I'm reading byte counters every 10 seconds, both here and on the Gateway (which takes 2.5 seconds to paint that page... grrr). I did the download test from both a wired PC and one 5 minutes later on the 5 GHz Wi-FI. Here are the charts of the Gateway WAN, the Gateway LAN to the ASUS, the ASUS...

I'm not reading any MIBs on the Gateway at all, because I have to screen scrape to get the byte counters. Perhaps I should have put some callouts in the comparison above, but you can see periods where Gateway Out = ASUS In, and Gateway In = ASUS Out and they track perfectly. But there are...

I have a ASUS AC1900P running Merlin v386.5_2 I've been setting up a Graphite monitoring system for my little network. I'm screen scraping my AT&T provided Gateway for interface counters but I wanted to also verify them by getting the byte counts from the ASUS router as well. I discovered the...