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1406890 2015-08-17 23:26:00 Hi all (Mainly Chill haha). I've got a situation where I want to setup a TP-Link TL-WR1043ND with gargoyle for traffic monitoring and management. It's been AGES since I've done one of these, and never with a ver 2.x of that router. Looking on gargoyle's site, there seems to be a heap of info regarding bugs with it, WAN port sometimes not working etc.

Just wondering if someone can confirm what firmware I should be using.

Thanks heaps!
wratterus (105)
1406891 2015-08-17 23:41:00 Flag that - maximum durr - I was reading the OpenWRT wiki by mistake. Went smooth as - just had to rename the .bin file, I assume it was too long.

Sorry about that... :o
wratterus (105)
1406892 2015-08-18 00:19:00 Flag that - maximum durr - I was reading the OpenWRT wiki by mistake. Went smooth as - just had to rename the .bin file, I assume it was too long.

Sorry about that... :o

Did you go for the latest gargoyle? the 1.7.2? I had a previous version .0 or .1 and found that after about a week of running, it would get itself into a boot loop.

I hadn't tried the later one.
psycik (12851)
1406893 2015-08-18 00:23:00 Yeah, 1.7.2. Will have to see how stable it is. So far so good. wratterus (105)
1406894 2015-08-18 00:32:00 Yeah, 1.7.2. Will have to see how stable it is.

let us know if you experience that issue. I believe it was solved. I just didn't want to go through the the upgrade again.
psycik (12851)
1406895 2015-08-18 05:18:00 The newer Gargoyle based off Chaos Calmer is having issues with WAN throughput over 100mbps (I think most routers bottom out around 140mbps). Not an issue for the 1043NDv2 given the port is only 100mbps anyways, but something to keep in mind. Older version based off Barrier Breaker doesn't have the problem.

The issue was resolved with v1.8 of the hardware I believe, something about LAN requests leaking onto the WAN and you previously had to upgrade the bootloader by upgrading to a non-english firmware and then to OpenWRT / Gargoyle. Not a problem any more though with the v1.8 and v2.* hardware.

So yeah, tl;dr rename firmware file to "gargoyle.bin", flash, reboot, enjoy! :)
Chilling_Silence (9)
1406896 2015-08-18 08:06:00 Jolly marvelous. wratterus (105)
1406897 2015-08-19 04:58:00 I installed it today, and everything is running great, so time will tell if it locks up.

Chill, is there a guide around somewhere that details setting it up in bridge mode? I wasn't able to get it working with an old D-link modem - the d-link did have a 'bridge mode' but when setup I couldn't get things working.

Thanks.
wratterus (105)
1406898 2015-08-19 08:28:00 Like a Wireless bridge mode?
Can't say I've tried sorry...
Chilling_Silence (9)
1406899 2015-08-19 22:39:00 Nah just bridge mode to the modem, so the modem passes through all the details to the Gargoyle router, to avoid double NAT.

I have done if before with other modems/routers but this time it just didn't want to work for some reason.
wratterus (105)
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