[Novalug] OT: Verizon FIOS Questions

[Craig Pennington]

On 6/29/07, Sean Spurrier <sean.spurrier at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> [snip]Router wise Verizon installs an Actiontec router device and
> stipulates that while you can use a different router they are not
> responsible for degredations in speed.  That being said I used to run a
> WRT54G v4 with the Open WRt firmware and boosted radio signals ...and the
> actiontec with its singular wireless ant. gives me better reception in the
> house.  I have the password to the actiontec and have changed it from the
> standard with no repercussions.  The router has a very nice firmware
> allowing for things like port knocking, dmz hosts, port forwarding, and
> dyndns updating.
>  [snip]
>

I've had FIOS for a while and been happy with it. The Actiontec router is
running a busybox based linux distro.

$ telnet gw
> Trying 192.168.0.1...
> Connected to gw.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> Username: admin
> Password: ****************
>
> Wireless Broadband Router> shell
>
>
> BusyBox v0.50 (2007.04.05-23:15+0000) Built-in shell (lash)
> Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
>
> / # cat /proc/cpuinfo
> Processor       : XScale-IXP4xx/IXC11xx rev 1 (v5b)
> BogoMIPS        : 532.48
> Features        : swp half thumb fastmult edsp
>
> Hardware        : MI424-WR
> Revision        : 0000
> Serial          : 0000000000000000
> / # cat /proc/meminfo
>         total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
> Mem:  29573120 15716352 13856768        0        0  4726784
> Swap:        0        0        0
> MemTotal:        28880 kB
> MemFree:         13532 kB
> MemShared:           0 kB
> Buffers:             0 kB
> Cached:           4616 kB
> SwapCached:          0 kB
> Active:           1140 kB
> Inactive:         6812 kB
> HighTotal:           0 kB
> HighFree:            0 kB
> LowTotal:        28880 kB
> LowFree:         13528 kB
> SwapTotal:           0 kB
> SwapFree:            0 kB
> / #


I was going to set up my own box to do NAT etc, but I like the features of
this little router enough that I'll put my efforts elsewhere.

Cheers,
  Craig

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