D-Link DSL-362T

[Denis Vlasenko]

Hi people,

This is going to be a mostly useless rant, feel free to ignore.

I am intermittently using D-Link DSL-362T xDSL router
for Internet connectivity. This box uses Linux and old version
of busybox.

Whoever hacked together the "firmware" for this crapbox did
a great disservice to Linux and busybox. It works horribly
sometimes, that is, when it works at all.

Setting up default route appears to be hugely difficult task.
If one does not connect USB cable, device doesn't set default route
99% of the time, for no apparent reason. Need to do it by hand.

Packets with nonzero TOS seem to be blackholed. It means
say goodbye to ssh and ntp.

Telnet server obviously has difficulty exiting cleanly.
More than half of the time after I type "exit" in shell
connection is not broken.

Inevitable slowdown and hang after a few hours of work
nicely complements the picture.

What people will think about Linux crowd if we will make
such crappy products? Shame!
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vda