[adsl] RTA770W ADSL router - DHCP also Bit-torrent troubles
    Neil Harsant 
    Neil.Harsant at syslinx.co.nz
       
    Thu Apr 17 23:17:31 EDT 2008
    
    
  
Hi,
   Over the past few days my Dynalink RTA770W ADSL router
has begun to misbehave in two separate ways:-
Symptoms are:-
-  An existing file transfer ( Bit-torrent download of an ISO ) continues
   successfully but any other transfer requests, DNS lookups or web
   access times out. (Both on the Wireless and on the Ethernet connections)
   This problem "goes away" (for a while) after rebooting the router.
-  Wireless access DHCP does not provide a working DNS address
   (Router configured to get DNS when it connects to the ISP then
    supply this via it's DHCP service). However after I hard coded
    the ISP's DNS addressed via the Dynalink's menu then the DHCP
    provides DNS reliably again. This problem also "goes away"
    for a while after rebooting the router.
I suspect that the first problem may be due to the large number of
simultaneous connections a torrent transfer can create. Perhaps
this "blows" a limit.
The second problem has only been seen recently after I enabled
the Wireless link on the router. The majority of traffic is not over the WiFi
but instead travels over ethernet between the router and a static IP
address on a Linux Firewall. 
ADSL Router Firmware Version  is 2.18.01.09a_a023g.d15d
Any ideas/suggestions or config changes?
   Neil
    
    
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