WDR3600 Fail

[boxofstuff]

Hey guys first post for me on here. Over my Christmas holidays I've been playing with a whole pile of firewall setups including untangle, pfsense and most recently Gargoyle. I live in a share house and I have a metered connection so ideally I want to implement quotas.

I bought a TP-Link WDR36000 v1.5 from the store. Downloaded the file verified the hash, then I flashed the tplink with the image below.
gargoyle_1.6.2-ar71xx-generic-tl-wdr3600-v1-squashfs-factory.bin

I thought I was in the clear and was really happy with it. but then everyone in my house started complaining about losing connections. I even started realising this myself. So I spent the next few hours troubleshooting things, I reset the gargoyle to default config to eliminate the possibility of me making a bad config change. I replaced cables, blah blah blah
ultimately when I it came to one PC on Ethernet plugged directly into the gargoyle plugged into the modem I was still having the issue.

Using wire shark I can tell something is strange about the data but I don't know what causes it. I have lots of retransmits and a frequent reset.

So now I have removed the gargoyle router and using an alternative just fine, i'm hoping that maybe if I flash an older firmware it might behave differently?

Has anyone else experienced this. is their something I can try to make gargoyle work?

[tapper]

Hi mate sorry to here about your router not playing ball. The WDR3600 is usually a good unit. A new build baste on the AA branch of openwrt was posted by a forum user named ispy witch you can find here::
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=6356

In a few weeks we will have a new build baste on the BB branch of openwrt to.
There is a test of the BB branch that has bin posted up here:
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=6523
I wood not flash the BB branch unles you no how to unbrick your router tho as i have already bricked a wrt160nl messing about with builds lol good luck.
For more info about AA BB and openwrt witch is the bace of Gargoyle pleas see here:
http://wiki.openwrt.org/about/latest

[Andy]

I also had lots of disconnection problems with Gargoyle 1.6.2 on a WDR3600 router. Currently I am using the latest OpenWRT on BB and have had no problems whatsoever.

I suggest waiting for Gargoyle 1.7 which should be released sometime this week, hopefully it doesn't have problems like 1.6.2.

[boxofstuff]

Thanks guys, I tried the 1.6x image mentioned by Tapper, it seems a lot better but I still get some pretty bad disconnects.

I might try the Open WRT as well as the 1.7 when that comes out.

correct me if I'm wrong but the open WRT doesn't support quota management?
however can I add the gargoyle packages on top on WRT or is this essentially the firmware I've already been using?

[tapper]

Why use DMZ. Just use Individual Port Forwarding. I use port 32400 in Plex Media Server.

<NAME> - TCP - 32400 - <LAN IP> - 32400.

Or did you already tried that? If not, please be more specific with your problem description.

Are you smoking crack? Where in this thread did any one talk about DMZ?