tbaMUD Continued development of the CircleMUD core

Guys, I'm really sorry for the downtime right now! I am working on it!

Whats happening is, the new router I picked up on Sunday has a crappy DHCP setup and the private IP doesn't stay static. This is causing people to not be able to connect. Both the game and wiki are in good shape, nothing is wrong with the server itself! No eq or data is lost! This is a routing issue only! I need to flash the router with dd-wrt or some other third-party firmware, but the dd-wrt version I used last had some issues with another one of the computers on the network so I flashed it back to the original Linksys firmware for now. I'm going to attempt a different setup for the time being.

If anybody is more knowledgeable about dd-wrt or openWRT and knows of a decent build to use, any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.

Hey Axanon. I was actually going to send you a PM about your site as I just saw the blog post and was excited to read about your scripting!

1) I have experience with DD-WRT and use it on 3 routers
2) I am also a network engineer so I could possibly help with your current issue as well...
3) I could also assist by re-hosting the wiki on a permanent site if you would like.

I know you don't know me from Adam, but I host a few online gaming communities and have recently gotten back into MUDding and I'm looking to help in any way I can! Just let me know :)

Thanks for the hosting offer, for the moment I'm back up and running but my setup is rather crude. If you'd like to help me troubleshoot the DD-WRT issue, I'll give you what information I can.

I'm using a WRT54GL (v1.1), and flashed it to the newest firmware (v4.30.14.005 10-26-2009). It didn't offer anything in the way of being able to reserve static IPs, so I looked into dd-wrt (which claims this is possible).

So, I flashed with the dd-wrt.v24_mini_generic first (as per instructions), then with dd-wrt.v24_std_generic (build 13064) as the router database recommends. Then, I added a MAC address, computer name and desired (following these instructions: http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/DNSMasq_as_DHCP_server ), after I added the MAC/Name/IP and clicked 'Add' the boxes came back empty. Figuring this was a bug with that particular build, I tried a build posted on the forums (13525 by BrainSlayer), but it had the same DHCP problem AND one of my computers stopped being able to fully connect to the internet through WLAN.

I just want to find a build that lets me use all my computers and has working static leases. If you know which v24 SP2 Standard build is a good one, it would be much appreciated!

Do you actually *need* DHCP leases? Why not set the DHCP server to give out addresses from .100 - .254 and then just statically assign your server with a < .100 IP address?

I do a fair amount of ssh and sftping between machines on the network. I setup my host files so that comp1 is always 192.168.1.101, comp2 is 192.168.1.102, etc. Sometimes one of the computers may be off the network for days at a time and the way the IPs are being assigned now makes it more likely for things to screw up. I want certain computers to always keep a certain address. So yeah, it is pretty necessary. Unless you can think of a different way to do it.

Well that's why I mentioned using a static IP outside of the DHCP range (don't rely on DHCP to give you a reserved IP).

Statically set your "comp1" to be, say, *.90 and "comp2" to *.91. They will permanently have these IP addresses and won't rely on any device to give them one. Unless you have a huge network of machines to change hosts files on, this would be the easiest option.

Am I missing something?

After a little bit of reading, I figured it out. Thanks!