Gargoyle Forum

Hi all,

I love this router now it has gargoyle. It is a Buffalo Netfinity( http://www.buffalo-technology.com/produ ... er-router/ ) - we have 2 PC's with gigabit lan so it makes it a great investment already.

I am having 2 issues however.

1. QoS isnt working on download (I want to prioritise VOIP traffic up/down).

I have a seimens C470IP VOIP via LAN on 192.168.0.5 and use a pennytel account. The ports are confirmed via the conntrack.sh management page.

Internet is provided via a cable modem plaugged into the EWAN port. Everythign else is fine.

As you can see by this pic below only the download on one connection is prioritised as VOIP.



I have set the Download and upload qos below:




And my port forwarding is set up also



2. Every 3 hours the entire router just stops and all connections are lost- it comes back in 20-30 seconds.

I dont know what to do with that one.

Thanks in advance

I know for sure the voip l7 filter in gargoyle is rtp and NOT sip (google the terms), that is why you get a mix result in qos.

Qos works indeed in gargoyle. In your case qos are mixed up in both up- and download. Take a look on ports; download should be source- and upload destination

You are wise to consult the connection list to make sure your classification is working correctly.

You have an error in your upload rule. On the download side you have destination IP address as 192.168.0.5 and this is correct. Your mistake is on the upload rule you should set IP source address as 192.168.0.5.

You should also delete all other parts of your rules and only use the IP address which is all you need in this case.

I do not recommend L7 rules and the other ports, protocols and what not are not needed in this case.

On your second problem you will have to monitor your WAN connection and see whats going on. What kind of connection do yo have to your ISP?

behappy wrote:I know for sure the voip l7 filter in gargoyle is rtp and NOT sip (google the terms), that is why you get a mix result in qos.

Qos works indeed in gargoyle. In your case qos are mixed up in both up- and download. Take a look on ports; download should be source- and upload destination

The sip/rtp is really just a application name and i can type anything into it so it doesnt matter to QoS.

Ill look at the mix up you detailed.

Thanks

pbix and behappy - great news- its ok now - thank-you for pointing out me silly error.

I still have a issue left however.

"2. Every 3 hours the entire router just stops and all connections are lost- it comes back in 20-30 seconds."

I logged in via ssh and tried to view the error logs but cant find any.

I looked in /tmp/logs but there is nothing there with errors in it.

i search for file names that included error and log but none seemed to have anything in them.

If i could see the error log then maybe it would tell me something helpful.

Any suggestions?

Anything special going on?

Phone calls? Scheduled downloads/updates?

I have never had my WZR-HP-G300NH just up and freeze on me.

I doubt its a memory issue, it's usually running no more than 50%
memory usage unless you have a USB storage device.

The router usually takes about 1 minute for a reboot, so I don't
think the router is rebooting - verify via the uptime.

If you can do without it for a few hours, #1 test I would try
is to disconnect the VoIP device for up to 12 hours (if you can)

If you no longer have router freezes, its something to do with
your VoIP device - or some incompatibility between the VoIP
and OpenWRT/Gargoyle - not sure.

Both 'logread' and 'dmesg' can be entered at the command line to output system log files. You might check those for a hint as to what your issue might be.

Sound to me like you are losing your connection to your ISP. I would be looking in that direction. If you have a modem start there.

DoesItMatter wrote:Anything special going on?

Phone calls? Scheduled downloads/updates?

I have never had my WZR-HP-G300NH just up and freeze on me.

I will look into this- thanks for your detailed and helpful reply.

pbix wrote:Both 'logread' and 'dmesg' can be entered at the command line to output system log files.

Gread- that is fantastic - i will check them next time this happens.

luddite wrote:

pbix wrote:Both 'logread' and 'dmesg' can be entered at the command line to output system log files.

Gread- that is fantastic - i will check them next time this happens.

I pretty much use the default QOS Gargoyle settings and so havent had any issues. There are many, many QOS settings so if you customize, you need to be sure you need to make sure they are compatible with your carrier.