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#407951 23-Nov-2010 00:56

I have one here at home in Auckland, Mt Roskill / Lynfield area.

It needs to get a ip address via DHCP so I had to put it after my router since I use a half bridge setup.

I plugged our wired devices into the lan ports in the device, I think their traffic detection should still work in this setup because the connection from the TrueNet device to my Linksys WRT54GL is from the WAN port on the TrueNet.

The wireless ap is disabled on the device as far as I can tell, so our wireless devices are currently bypassing it and connecting direct to the Linksys WRT54GL.

Haven't seen any significant effect on latency, seems to be a fairly transparent form of bridging in use.

I imagine the firmware running on the TrueNet Dlink DIR615 has been adapted/customised from OpenWRT or DD-WRT or something along those lines.

I gave the TrueNet a "static" lan ip addresss by mac address in Tomato on the Linksys WRT54GL so it will get the same ip address from DHCP every time. This means I can check up how much data it uses and when via the iptparse addon for Tomato.

Tried going to the lan ip address of the TrueNet device in a browser to see if it was possible to access the admin ui (in order to use the wireless and not bypass the device with wireless clients), appears to be setup to not allow web admin from the lan.

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#407954 23-Nov-2010 01:39

Ragnor: Tried going to the lan ip address of the TrueNet device in a browser to see if it was possible to access the admin ui (in order to use the wireless and not bypass the device with wireless clients), appears to be setup to not allow web admin from the lan.

Yep theres no user access to the device, I also had a play for the same reason.
Shame they have locked down access to the wireless functions on it, would make sence to activate the wireless so it can see when there is wireless as well as wired activity rather than having wireless screw with the test results.

[shameless plug] those of you in Christchurch or Dunedin please look into becoming a tester, they still need alot more testers in these areas, cheers

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#407965 23-Nov-2010 08:06

Ragnor: It needs to get a ip address via DHCP so I had to put it after my router since I use a half bridge setup.

In your case you are just using it as a switch...

Here we already have two gigabit switches in the house, leaving a couple of LAN ports available on the Cisco SRP. Not knowing if the Truenet device (D-Link hardware) had enough grunt to manage a 100Mbps connection I decided to plug it in one of the LAN ports in my router, with nothing else plugged to it.

Yes, TrueNet is looking for more testers in the South Island...

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#408398 23-Nov-2010 17:11

freitasm:
Ragnor: It needs to get a ip address via DHCP so I had to put it after my router since I use a half bridge setup.

In your case you are just using it as a switch...

Here we already have two gigabit switches in the house, leaving a couple of LAN ports available on the Cisco SRP. Not knowing if the Truenet device (D-Link hardware) had enough grunt to manage a 100Mbps connection I decided to plug it in one of the LAN ports in my router, with nothing else plugged to it.

Yes, TrueNet is looking for more testers in the South Island...

Hmm but traffic is still going from the PC via LAN port on the TrueNet then out the WAN port on the TrueNet into a LAN port on the Linksys WRT54GL. So not just a switch extension which would be LAN port to LAN port, more like a transparent bridge (depending how the firrmware is setup).

It "should" be able to handle 100Mbit through the WAN port especially since they won't be using all the extra stuff that routers normally do like DHCP, NAT, firewall etc.

Plenty of people on Verizon FiOS in the US using DD-WRT and TomatoUSB etc on routers for example, so throughput does get tested on the 3rd party firmware's I believe.

It would be interesting to test it and see the throughput on a local speedtest of file transfer.

You should also be able to have you gigabit switch daisy chain off the TrueNet which would still give you gigabit between wired devices on the gigabit switch.

It's a sad they didn't go one of the next models up in the D-Link range that has a gigabit switch, but hey it's a free loan device.

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#408405 23-Nov-2010 17:15

Yes, I understand that. But in my configuration there's no traffic going through the device at all - it's just another "client" device on the network, not routing or switching traffic through it.

The main reason is because it's not a gigabit device - so my LAN traffic is not limited, going through the switches, and only reaching the Cisco router if it's going out to the Internet... My LAN traffic (no traffic at all actually) never touches the TrueNet device.

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#408412 23-Nov-2010 17:19

You should try the other setup and see what the throughput is, it would be interesting.

Daisy chaining a standalone gigabit switch off the TrueNet should still give you gigabit between devices plugged into the gigabit switch iirc.

Only problem would be if you don't have a standalone gigabit switch and your only gigabit switch is part of the Cisco router?

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#408413 23-Nov-2010 17:20

In my case yes it would, but not in your diagram - I don't see a switch there, some devices connect to the TrueNet router directly.

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#408416 23-Nov-2010 17:23

Yeah I don't have a standalone gigabit switch at home at the moment to try it with.

Might borrow one from work and see daisy chaining a gigabit switch off a 100Mbit switch works how I expect.

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