Networking at home

Earlier I had speed problems with my unit and I wanted to make sure if it is only perception or if it is a real speed problem. The concept what I have implemented was, that the unit should make a test every 15 minutes to check the download speed of the cellular connection. Then the result with some other relevant information is added to a file stored on the external USB flash drive. So here is the script: wget -q -O /dev/null http://www.ericssonw25.com/pdf/w25_V1.2_R6A019.zip & wget -q -O /dev/null http://www.ericssonw25.com/pdf/W25_Users_Guide_D.pdf & wget -q -O /dev/null http://www.ericssonw25.com/pdf/W25_Users_Guide_C.pdf & sleep 3; bejovo=`cat /proc/net/dev |grep ppp0 |cut -d":" -f2 |awk '{print$1}'`; sleep 5; bejovo1=`cat /proc/net/dev |grep ppp0|cut -d":" -f2 |awk '{print$1}'`; kill `pidof wget` echo `date '+%Y.%m.%d %H:%M'` `echo $bejovo $bejovo1 |awk '{print (($2-$1))/640}'` kbps `msctl rscp...

By analysing the /bin/swinst script it become clear, that the firmware package is a simple tar file, containing the software components to be upgraded. Usually it contains the following elements: metainfo - detailed information and MD5 summs of the components to be installed preinstall.sh - script to be executed before installing postinstall.sh - script to be executed after installation zImage - linux kernel rootfs.squahfs - root file system wanbl - wan module boatloader wanfw - wan module firmware The swinst script is quite complex, but basicly it download the firmware form the internet to the TMP directory, checks the checksums, checks the SW versions and if the upgrade is needed, the upgrades first the main firmware, then the WAN bootloader and then the WAN firmware. When installing the main firmware it increases the number used by RedBoot boot loader, this way it is garanteed, that on restart the new version will boot. On the other hand, if the installation is interrupted, the old ...

Using the default ip network based time sycronization has two disadvantages: As you can not set time zones your device will run always on GMT In the current SW version the ntp daemon is crasing after some days so you will loose syncronization You can change it to cellular based syncronization with the following commands on the command line interface: # cf set sntp.enabled false # cf set cellular.celltime true # cf commit This will use your local time and will run forever. I have implemeted this 2 days ago, but it turned out that you can use this only if you have good enough coverage, othervise you will not get the time from the cellular network. So I swicthed back to the ip network based syncronization and I will write a script to periodically restart the time syncronization process.

I have spent some hours trying to find a propper source to get prebuilt binary files to be executed on the Ericsson W25 without sucess. I could figure out that I need "armeb" type files and I have found them in the Debian ARM packages and in OpenWRT kamikaze version, but none of them was usefull as the debian used a different version of the main c libraries and OpenWRT uses uLibC. If anyone know more sources of ready made binaries, please let me know.

Dynamic DNS is a technology used to have a permanent address even if your ip address is changing all the time. To do this you have to register at one of the Dynamic DNS providers (I have used no-ip.com ), select a nice web address for yoursef (e.g. kiki.no-ip.info) update your ip address and access your computer on this new address (kiki.no-ip.info). The update of your ip address can be done automatically by this simple script. The script checks your IP address and if it is changed it simply request the https page defined for updating your ip address. You can find this address for other DynDNS providers in their developer documentation. When requesting the update, you even don't have to include your IP address as the server will see it from the request. #!bin/sh IP=`ifconfig ppp0 |grep "inet addr" |awk '{print $2}' |awk -F: '{print $2}'`; if [ ! -e /var/tmp/oldip ] ; then OLDIP="1"; else OLDIP=`cat /var/tmp/oldip`; fi; if [ $IP = $OLDIP ] ; ...