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TP Link ER5120 limitations: lacking and disturbing features

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/18

Mikrotik have statistics and way more features. The most lacking or disturbing features on the TP-LINK (none of which are mentioned in their documentation):

  • The documentation mentions you can enable Enable Bandwidth Based Balance Routing then select the WAN connections to combine but that doesn’t work at all, even if you follow the bandwidth steps carefully.
  • Balanced Routing work when you perform these steps as mentioned at time point 457 in this video https://youtu.be/YDUfP8a5zNY
    • Enable Application Optimized Routing
    • Enable Bandwidth Based Balance Routing
  • Virtual-Server table can only handle 32 incoming port redirects; you get the message “Cannot add more than 32 Virtual Server entries” like in the picture below.
  • No IPv6 support
  • No way to show any statistics as graphs.
  • Every once in a while the web interface becomes really really slow which only a reboot can resolve.
  • You cannot have one of the WAN connections have multiple IP addresses.
  • Local DHCP clients are not added to the DNS proxy which means you cannot resolve them by name.
  • TCP Sequence Prediction: Difficulty=0 (Trivial joke)
  • You cannot configure how often to check WAN connections

On the other hand: when you do balanced routing indeed bundles all the WAN connections, configured Virtual Servers do work well and WAN specific routing settings to what they need to.

Source: Gigabit Load Balance Broadband Router TL-ER5120 – Welcome to TP-LINK

Verdict: fine for home use, not good for real multi-WAN use.

–jeroen

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Fritz!Box 7360 and 7490: static routes over VPN don’t work

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/15

I’ve tried the below on a Fritz!Box 7490 configuration and it fails as well.

The case is that I’ve a VPN (see Getting Fritz!Box LAN-LAN VPN to work) between a Fritz!Box 7360 (having internal IP 192.168.24.1) and a Fritz!Box 7490 (having internal IP 192.168.71.1). This is how it looks from the Fritz!Box 7360 side:

Name Address in the Internet local network remote network
80.100.143.119 80.100.143.119 192.168.24.0/24 192.168.171.0/24

On the 192.168.171.0/24 side of things, the internal IP of the 80.100.143.119 router is 192.168.171.1. Inside the 192.168.171.0/24 network is is another router (192.168.171.22) having an internal 192.168.71.0/24 network.

Basically I want to tell the Fritz!Box 7360 (at IP 192.168.24.1) that there is an internal route to 192.168.71.0/24 via 192.168.171.22.

I found and read Accessing multiple IP networks behind a FRITZ!Box over VPN connection between two FRITZ!Boxes | FRITZ!Box 7360 | AVM International.

Based on it, I wanted to add this route on the 192.168.24.1:

Static IPv4 Route

IPv4 network 192.168.71.0
Subnet mask 255.255.255.0
Gateway 192.168.171.22
Enabled X

When you do that, you get this error message:

An error occurred.
Error description: The route is illegal.
Please enter your data again. If the error occurs again, please consult AVM Support.

How can I get this route to work?

–jeroen

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Google Video Quality Report for Kissimmee, FL

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/25

Find out how good the YouTube experience is with your Internet Provider using the Google Video Quality Report.

Source: Google Video Quality Report

Kissimmee hotel internet: not so good (:

PING              55 ms
DOWNLOAD 0.81 Mbps
UPLOAD        2.91 Mbps

–jeroen
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It was fun while it lasted: Barracuda Copy – Copy End-of-Life

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/05

Copy had some advantages and disadvantages. For instance, it was better handling long file names, character encodings in filenames and a lot easier to configure over a CNTLM proxy than DropBox, but unlike DropBox didn’t keep history of changes.

Alas no more copy.com as of 20160501: [WayBack] Barracuda Copy – Copy End-of-Life.

They suggest using [WayBack] Mover with OneDrive as target: [WayBack] Barracuda Copy – Moving Your Data from Copy

Note that Mover has many more connectors, including cloud storage ones (Box, Copy, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive and Yandex.Disk are free):

[WayBack] Connectors • Mover: FTP, Dropbox, Box, GoogleDrive, Copy, Egnyte, Amazon S3, SharePoint, MySQL the list goes on!

For me it means it’s time to think about what kinds of cloud storage I want to use and how to share what data with others at which access level. As I’m already contemplating on how to use ZFS, I now have two storage concepts to think about.

–jeroen

Posted in Cloud, Cloud Apps, Cntlm, Copy.com, DropBox, Infrastructure, NTLM, Power User, SocialMedia, Windows, Windows-Http-Proxy | Leave a Comment »

VLAN with multiple AP’s on Tomato? | LinksysInfo.org

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/26

Interesting: VLAN with multiple AP’s on Tomato? | LinksysInfo.org

Some additional links for back-ground info:

–jeroen

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[NL] @xs4all – inkomende telefoontjes blokkeren: Fritz!Box of VOIP-selfcare

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/18

xs4all biedt twee mogelijkheden om inkomende telefoontjes te blokkeren: via de Fritz!Box of via VOIP-selfcare.

Als je in het VOIP-selfcare een nummer toevoegt onder “Inkomende oproepen blokkeren”, dan krijgt de beller een “bandje” dat het een ongewenst gesprek is. Dat wilde ik niet: net als bij inlog fouten wil je zo weinig mogelijk informatie geven over een oorzaak.

Als je oproepen van een specifiek telefoonnummer via de Fritz!Box blokkeert, dan krijgt de beller meteen xs4all voicemail. Ook niet wat ik wilde, maar het zette me wel op het juiste spoor.

De voicemail komt doordat de Fritz!Box dan een meteen een in-gesprek (line busy) genereert en zo het telefoongesprek afwimpelt. Omdat voicemail bij xs4all standaard aan staat, gaat het gesprek dan meteen naar voicemail.

In dit geval wilde ik toch van de xs4all voicemail af, dus heb ik dat gedaan door in de VOIP-self care alle vinkjes bij “Gesprekken doorschakelen” uit te zetten, zie het plaatje onderaan.

Een “Gesprekken doorschakelen” zonder vinkjes heft alle doorschakelingen op, waardoor de beller precies het antwoord krijgt dat de Fritz!Box voorschotelt.

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In remembrance of Felipe Rodriquez

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/10

Felipe makes a few appearances in this great _Unauthorized Access_ documentary by Annaliza Savage 1994.

Memorable moments:

  1. Intro about the initial small size of Hack-Tick.
  2. The start of the Hack-Tick ISP in The Netherlands, which originally started with UUCP and later grew into one of the most important general ISPs with a very keen focus in privacy: xs4all.
  3. Hacking at the End of the Universe congress.

Most of the “in memories” were in Dutch, but one of the few English ones says it all: [Wayback] D U T C H F E L L O W S — In memory of Felipe Rodriquez.

Karin Spaink (friend of Felipe, also suffering from MS) wrote [Wayback] Felipe Rodriguez has died.

A few of the Dutch articles that impressed me very much (some obituaries, some on the internet history in The Netherlands):

–jeroen

The full video:

Slightly longer but with a worse audio quality:

 

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Fiber to Fiber speed beats Cable to Fiber speed by a factor 2 (all three internet connections are in the same house)

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/10/05

I’ve two fiber connections, one cable connection and one ADSL connection at home.

This is a traceroute from one fiber connection to the other over the outside network:

traceroute to snip.xs4all.nl (80.100.143.119), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
 1  tomatortn66u (172.23.71.1)  0.951 ms  0.708 ms  0.638 ms
 2  fiber24315337241.heldenvannu.net (37.153.243.241)  1.135 ms  0.988 ms  0.974 ms
 3  rt121bb121-212-183.routit.net (212.121.121.183)  1.973 ms  1.976 ms  1.919 ms
 4  0-7-0-4-core2-a-tc1.routit.net (84.246.25.133)  2.711 ms  2.498 ms  2.517 ms
 5  0-7-0-4-core2-a-tc1.routit.net (84.246.25.133)  2.725 ms  2.674 ms  2.535 ms
 6  0-7-0-7-core4-a-tc2.routit.net (37.0.80.7)  3.048 ms  2.883 ms  2.712 ms
 7  1-2-inet1-tc2.routit.net (84.246.25.46)  2.767 ms  2.633 ms  2.514 ms
 8  ams-ix.tc2.xs4all.net (80.249.208.166)  2.676 ms  4.177 ms  2.775 ms
 9  0.ae5.xr3.3d12.xs4all.net (194.109.5.13)  2.987 ms  3.114 ms  11.387 ms
10  xe-8-1-0.dr11.xs4all.net (194.109.7.14)  6.188 ms
    xe-7-0-1.dr11.d12.xs4all.net (194.109.7.58)  3.320 ms
    xe-8-0-1.dr11.d12.xs4all.net (194.109.7.38)  3.206 ms
11  snip.xs4all.nl (80.100.143.119)  4.079 ms !X  3.960 ms !X  3.946 ms !X

This is the same but from my third connection (that will go away sooner than later): Cable.

traceroute to snip.xs4all.nl (80.100.143.119), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
 1  www.asusnetwork.net (192.168.171.1)  1.016 ms  0.983 ms  0.938 ms
 2  * * *
 3  212.142.62.69 (212.142.62.69)  11.427 ms  8.361 ms  8.459 ms
 4  84.116.244.97 (84.116.244.97)  8.080 ms  10.405 ms  7.340 ms
 5  nl-ams09b-ri1-xe-10-2-0.aorta.net (84.116.130.22)  7.625 ms
    nl-ams09b-ri1-xe-8-0-0.aorta.net (84.116.130.2)  10.392 ms
    84.116.136.81 (84.116.136.81)  9.534 ms
 6  0.xe-1-2-0.xr1.tc2.xs4all.net (194.109.7.209)  8.315 ms  9.505 ms  9.684 ms
 7  0.ae5.xr3.3d12.xs4all.net (194.109.5.13)  9.508 ms
    0.ae4.xr4.1d12.xs4all.net (194.109.5.9)  9.565 ms
    0.ae5.xr3.3d12.xs4all.net (194.109.5.13)  9.459 ms
 8  xe-7-0-1.dr11.d12.xs4all.net (194.109.7.58)  8.547 ms  13.159 ms  9.893 ms
 9  snip.xs4all.nl (80.100.143.119)  9.710 ms !X  10.079 ms !X  8.121 ms !X

Finally there is ADSL (which will go even sooner):

snap:~ # traceroute snip.xs4all.nl
traceroute to snip.xs4all.nl (80.100.143.119), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets using UDP
 1  192.168.71.1 (192.168.71.1)  1.052 ms   0.554 ms   0.520 ms
 2  lo0.dr13.d12.xs4all.net (194.109.5.212)  17.767 ms   17.368 ms   17.123 ms
 3  1423.ae3.xr4.1d12.xs4all.net (194.109.7.137)  16.901 ms 1418.ae3.xr4.1d12.xs4all.net (194.109.7.17)  16.628 ms 1323.ae3.xr3.3d12.xs4all.net (194.109.7.141)  16.354 ms
 4  xe-8-1-0.dr11.xs4all.net (194.109.7.14)  15.961 ms xe7-0-0.dr11.d12.xs4all.net (194.109.7.170)  15.762 ms xe-8-1-0.dr11.xs4all.net (194.109.7.14)  15.283 ms
 5  snip.xs4all.nl (80.100.143.119)(N!)  15.914 ms (N!)  16.171 ms (N!)  15.710 ms

Cable is about twice as slow than Fiber.

ADSL is about three times as slow than Fiber.

–jeroen

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http://169.254.1.1 trick for Opening UI of the FRITZ!WLAN Repeater 1750E – via: AVM International

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/08/24

Because http://fritz.box points to my Fritz!BOX router, it cannot be used to get to my Fritz!WLAN Repeater. I just learned about the http://169.254.1.1 trick does.

Which saves me from remembering the repeater IP-address or name.

–jeroen

via: Opening the FRITZ!Box user interface | FRITZ!WLAN Repeater 1750E | AVM International.

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Setting your DNS servers manually – via – Tweakers

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/08/21

Interesting Dutch thread about a major ISP having DNS issues because of DDos attacks. Many messages to set your DNS servers manually on various operating systems, and a list of good DNS server alternatives. Recommended reading:

Ziggo kampt weer met storing – update – IT Pro – Nieuws – Tweakers.

–jeroen

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