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Any idea when the 6.2 firmware is going to be available for this model as I understand it fixes the IE7 admin issues. Most of the other models seem to have had a 6.2 firmware upgrade made available already.

ok i found this forum with all the latest firmwares on here but not sure which would be the right file, I guess i would need the international version. does anyone else speak german and can tell which file would be appropriate. Also i have never upgraded a speedtouch firmware before, does it retain all your settings when you upgrade? (used to have a draytek 2800g before this).

http://www.speedtouchforum.de/viewtopic.php?t=1089

hmn another well responded to post, looks like no one uses these routers or no one reads these boards?

Does anyone else know of an active speedtouch forum then where poeple actually post and discuss speedtouch related things?

Hi, having just recieved (and getting very frustrated with) a new 608WL, it has shipped with the 6.1.9.6 firmware. However, I cannot get it to update to the 6.1.17.5 firmware just so you know. The "auto update" says I have the latest firmware, although clearly that's a lie.

Be aware that if you use DMT, it doesn't work with the v6 firmware for graphing line noise etc!

I also cannot for the life of me figure out how to get it to use 8 IP addresses on the wan side, and I managed to confuse Zen support too - we both drew a blank on this as the config is quite different that from the 5.4 firmware. If I manage to work it out, then I'll post it here, but as I currently don't use that facility I'm not too bothered if I can't get it working.

Rob

This is as far I've got so far:

The inbuilt upgrade utility via web interface seems to be useless. Download the 608WL file BANT-G0_R619WW_upgrade.exe , and also download the ZZRZAA6.2H5.bli file. Set your PC to have an IP of 10.0.0.1. Ensure you do not have any other router, PC or whatever that can act as a DHCP server connected to the network or the firmware update will fail, but not before having removed the old firmware, thus leaving you up % creek (better still use a back-to-back cable).

Run the BantG utility (assumes you have a BANT-G board of course), when updating, chose the have disk option and select the ZZRZAA file.

If you already have v6 firmware, then your settings are saved allegedly (but worth copying user.ini etc from the /dl/ folder on the router - download via ftp...)

If you have v5 firmware, all settings are lost!

You can use the above if you accidentally trash your firmware (like I did first time! Vital to kill off DHCP servers as the tool acts as a TFTP server that assigns IP via BOOTP).

The firmware is "region International" and works fine in the UK as far as I can tell so far. What doesn't work on the 6.2H5 release is the java applet for CLI commands. It does in the 6.1.9.6 release, but the GUI is a lot neater and updated in the 6.2 release. Can't guarantee it won't screw your router etc. etc. so use this info at your own risk, but the above is my experience thus far and it worked for me.

If anyone has an idea how to achieve what I can on my Vigor2600VGi, namely 5 of my 8 public IP's NATed to internal LAN PC's and one NATed global router IP address for the rest of the PCs on the LAN I'd be happy to hear from you.

Rob

I eventually contacted speedtouch support to ask about the 6.2 firmware and they sent me a copy via email tho it seems it was the wrong version because when I tried to use the firmware update tool (not the one built into the router) it said it was the wrong version. In the end I downloaded the latest version from the link I originally posted and upgraded my router to 6.2 using the same utility.

The upgrade process was a little hairy as the pc loses connection during the upgrade as it resets every thing back to factory but I just loaded my config file back in and everything was back to normal. No more problems with connecting via IE7 now and also the router appears more stable than before if anything.

With regard to dmt tool it doesn't work with the latest firmwares for this router and I can't tell from the web site which is in German wether they will ever release a version that will, there is however a spin of version called smt or something that is linked on the dmt forum for the 608 router (at work at the mo so havn't got the links handy).

I have to say tho I am dissapointed that speedtouch uk don't have a user forum for people to get help and discuss things on, other nationalities have this option and it seems strange in this day and age not to host one. 

I've just acquired a 608wl and have updated the firmware to 6.2.29.2 (6.2T2) and unfortunately the browser based CLI is still broken .

Has anyone tried the 7.2.0.8 or 7.4.1.7 firmwares (I've read elsewhere they are a bit iffy).

Are there going to be any 8.*.*.* releases this year? 

TheRobveiler:

If anyone has an idea how to achieve what I can on my Vigor2600VGi, namely 5 of my 8 public IP's NATed to internal LAN PC's and one NATed global router IP address for the rest of the PCs on the LAN I'd be happy to hear from you.

Rob

 Over a yr ago Rob asked this question, I have the same problem and speaking to Zen support got me nowhere, nearest they got was to configure with public-no nat which presents all the public ips to the lan, if my company only had 5 pc's then that would be ok..........................

Can anyone answer Rob's Q: above ?

Pete

 

 

Ah thats fairly easy to configure...

Just set the Speedtouch up in standard nat mode.

Then go into the CLI..to do this open a command prompt and type: Telnet 192.168.1.254 (assuming that is your router's IP address) and press enter

Type Administrator as the username (thats the default - note the capital A) and press enter
When prompted for the password just leave the field empty and press enter again, unless you have changed the password.

Now... (with a.b.c.d as your external/public additional IP, and p.q.r.s as you internal/client computer IP) type the command :

nat mapadd type=nat intf=Internet outside_addr=a.b.c.d inside_addr=p.q.r.s

You can confirm what is setup with the command:

nat maplist

And you can remove a previously set up static NAT with the command:

nat mapdelete intf=Internet index=?

index can be determined from the nat maplist command

when you are done in the CLI don't forget to type the command:

saveall

..as unlike the web interface changes are not automatically saved (so you need the saveall command if you want them to survive a reboot)

You can quit the interface with the command:

exit

Note these commands are case sensitive. If you are unsure on the CLI commands you can start typing and press tab to complete, or you can type  ? and enter for help (or a command followed by ? for help on that specific command)

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Kindest regards,

James Sweet
http://www.zen.co.uk

Brill James! that works. I was nearly there but had created a dmz vlan ( as per Speedtouch and DMZ pdf ) but in adding the mapping I'd used dmz as the interface instead of internet.

Going a step further, could I split the bridge into 4 ?

port              public ip         no. of pcs

1                 x.x.x.1                  30
2                   x.x.x.2                  1
3                  x.x.x.3                   1
4                    x.x.x.4                   1                  

 

You can certainly set up a 1-1 NAT for all the external IPs except the router IP,  (so 3 1-1 NATs and 1 standard NAPT using the router IP for the remaining local computers)

The router isn't clever enough to map separate NATs to separate physical ports though - as far as its concerned the internal LAN ports are all 1 logical interface.
You'd probably need an expensive CISCO or similar router with multiple LAN WICs if you wanted to do that kind of thing!

It may be possible to play around with the DHCP settings so that the internal IP corresponding to the machine you want to get a certain public IP always gets designated to the same physical computer (although manually assigning LAN IPs to computers that need an external WAN IP address is probably far simpler)

 

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Kindest regards,

James Sweet
http://www.zen.co.uk