[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] ath79: add D-Link DIR-615 rev. E4

[Lars Melin]

On 11/8/2019 14:50, Paul Fertser wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 08:19:27AM +0300, Paul Fertser wrote:
>> I see there's some http server mentioned in the wiki article, haven't
>> tried it yet (and I can't understand what "simple" web browser it
>> talks about, probably there should be a curl command instead?),
> 
> So I gave it a try but the results are not fruitful. This command
> should work:
> 
> curl http://192.168.0.1/cgi/index -F Send=@built/targets/ath79/tiny/openwrt-ath79-tiny-dlink_dir-615-e4-squashfs-factory.bin
> 
> BUT the recovery HTTP server is using a very old uIP implementation
> that seems to be unable to play well along with the current TCP stack
> in Linux. The result is a very slow upload (left it overnight and it's
> still not finished).
> 
>  From working with uIP before on an embedded target I know that it
> doesn't support delayed ACKs in any form, for any packet it sends it
> waits for an ACK before sending the next, and I would guess that for
> any packet it receives it's better to wait for its ACK before sending
> the next (as I see plenty of duplicated ACKs from this backup server
> all confirming just the first packet received, and then long wait
> before retransmission). The problem is in the number of packets sent,
> not the size (so changing MTU/MSS doesn't help much).
> 
> I haven't been able to find a way to trick it into behaving, sorry.
> 

Don't complicate simple things, all D-Link routers have a recovery web 
page and you access it with your browser, not with curl.

/Lars

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