Hi everyone,

I intend to buy an Asus wl 500g premium router and I need your advice.

My  ISP has a strange policy about sharing the internet connection through a router and made me lot of trouble. At this time, to have an internet connection available, I have to run on my Windows XP a custom application where I should type my username and password for accessing the net. They provide also a script to be run by the Linux users. Another problem is that the packages have the TTL=1.

So my question for you is:
-is it possible to install on the router the following packages: libmcrypt 2.5.7, PHP-CLI 5.1.2, Zend 2.6.2 and GNU Wget 1.10.2?
-is it possible by using iptables to increase the TTL to avoid the problem about passing the packages through the router?

Because I'm a begginer, it could be very useful for me some details about how to compile the sources and then install those on the router.

Many thanks,

Liviu

I have the same problem with my ISP. I have to increase TTL to share the connection. My voip router Linksys WRTP54G-EU has not a function to change TTL value. I found several firmware images here on OpenWRT site: click
How can I find if any of those firmwares contains TTL function?

(Last edited by r-tea on 15 Jun 2007, 20:04)

I have always wondered if ISPs monitor the TTL.  You can use iptables to force the ttl to a certain value.  You might be careful though, because there are other ways for your ISP to tell you are running NAT.

EDIT: By the way, this has been discussed before: http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=29407

(Last edited by netprince on 15 Jun 2007, 22:58)

you can mangle the TTL values via iptables -

ipkg install iptables-mod-ipopt
iptables -j TTL -h

then edit the firewall scripts appropriately