RV220W - Packet Loss (wired and wireless)

[terminalx]

Hi There

I have a RV220W with the latest firmware (1.0.2.4) and I loose about one in every 20-40 packets.

I have tried with both wireless/wired, on different ports, laptops, and Ethernet cables.

My configuration is fairly simple:

1.) I reconfigured the default subnet

2.) I setup a WAP on the same vlan (VLAN1)

3.) I setup a WAP on Vlan2 for guests

Other than that, settings are out of box (save a hostname/etc).

Any ideas? I just purchased it, and am thinking I'll have to phone Cisco for RMA.... There is a similar thread where people noticed this on wireless (not sure if they tried wired as I have).  RV220W Packet Loss over wireless

Cheers.

-Henry

[terminalx]

Update. I RMA'ed this device (before the 1.0.3 firmware came out).

I received a new unit, but I am having the same problem, on a wired connection:

Reply from 192.168.21.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64

Reply from 192.168.21.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64

Request timed out.

Reply from 192.168.21.1: bytes=32 time=3437ms TTL=64

Reply from 192.168.21.1: bytes=32 time=2ms TTL=64

Reply from 192.168.21.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64

Strange hey? I am on the latest firmware, and default settings, other than an IP change for the router and DHCP scope.

I did setup a wireless network, with WPA2, and one SSID.

I'll be opening another Cisco ticket. This is crazy.

[jasbryan]

Henry,

Under the RV220W firewall  àBasic Settingsàattacks Checks

Make sure Blocker Fragmented packets is (unchecked)

Jasbryan

[terminalx]

Thanks Jasbryan

I have done that now. I'll run for a few days and repost results.

-Henry

[terminalx]

The problem has returned. I have to reboot the router every day or so.

My config is basic. No Vlan's default settings (other than the one suggested by Jasbryan).

I'll have to open a call again.

[meedekock]

Hi Henry,

Did you solve this? I have the same issue with one exception, i'm not using the wireless network of the RV220W but have a different AP.

64 bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_seq=4529 ttl=64 time=6.294 ms

64 bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_seq=4530 ttl=64 time=4.276 ms

64 bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_seq=4531 ttl=64 time=15.807 ms

64 bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_seq=4532 ttl=64 time=6.927 ms

64 bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_seq=4533 ttl=64 time=8967.885 ms

64 bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_seq=4534 ttl=64 time=7966.612 ms

64 bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_seq=4535 ttl=64 time=6965.303 ms

64 bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_seq=4536 ttl=64 time=5964.018 ms

[linksysinfo]

Try upgrading the firmware to 1.0.3.5, then do a factory reset and try again

[terminalx]

Never solved it.. It's better with the suggestion that Jasbryan gave, but it still drops pings. I find that it gets worse, and then a reboot clears it up.

At the moment, I'm booting every 2 days or so, hoping for some magical firmware to come fix it. I can't say I'm impressed.

I have done factory resets a few times, and this is my second RV220W with the same issue.

-Henry

[terminalx]

Cisco, I understand there is beta firmware now? 1.4? Can I please try that?

[meedekock]

Hi Henry,

Thanks for the response. I have the same issues, reinstalled previous firmwares did various factory resets but cannot get this box to remain stable. Last night it died only to come up after a hard reboot this morning.

After configuring the RV220W to log externally i found the following errors:

Sat Jan  1 01:02:04 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] BUG: at kernel/softirq.c:138 local_bh_enable()

Sat Jan  1 01:02:04 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] Call Trace:[][][][][][][][][][][][

Sat Jan  1 01:02:04 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] umi: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel.

Realy guys, are you serious about your quality control in relation to this product? I have one advice, please open up the box to allow alternative software (HyperWRT/Tomato/etc), it'll seriously improve your product (if not, it will speed up the release of new firmware with fixes)

For now i'm done with it, i have spent way too much time on it. I'm going to replace it with a competitive brand (and write this one off after a useless lifetime of 3 months as i cannot return this one) and will think twice before buying any Cisco Small Business products again. For all others who are thinking to buy this box, stay away from it!!!!

[jasbryan]

Henry,

Yeah if you would like to try the beta firmware , you'll need to give Cisco Small Business Support Center a call (1-866-606-1866)and request beta firmware. We will need to create a case and escalate your case up. They will get you to sign a beta agreement and send you a link for download that beta firmware for testing.

Jasbryan

[terminalx]

Jasbryan, I will do that.  As added information, going on comemnts from Marcel, I went and setup a syslog.

When I get "Request timed out" I get a:

Feb 24 10:46:03 rv220w KERNEL [Kernel] ERROR:endChantRecv: protocol PNAC returned !OK

That's a simmilar comment in other threads:

https://supportforums.cisco.com/thread/2101238

https://supportforums.cisco.com/thread/2079201

https://supportforums.cisco.com/thread/2129160

This is consistant for me. When there is a timeout, there is the above log. They seem to come and go for me.  A reboot of the router fixes it, but it happens often...

-Henry

[meedekock]

Hi Henry,

Ive seen this one as well. I also noticed that if an unstable / bad perfoming DNS server is used, the problems increase. You might want to check the performance of your DNS configuration.

Here's my logging from today, it might help....

Sat Jan  1 00:02:00 2000(UTC) [rv220w][System][PLATFORM] profile default doesnt exist.

Sat Jan  1 00:02:00 2000(UTC) [rv220w][System][PLATFORM] Deletion of EAP Profile failed

Fri Feb 24 07:32:58 2012(GMT+0100) [rv220w][System][FIREWALL] fwPPTPGenericRules.c: inet_aton failed

Fri Feb 24 07:33:05 2012(GMT+0100) [rv220w][System][NIMF] nimfNetIfaceTblHandler: unable to get LedPinId

Sat Jan  1 01:02:03 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] CVMSEG size: 2 cache lines (256 bytes)

Sat Jan  1 01:02:03 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] CPU revision is: 000d0601

Sat Jan  1 01:02:03 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] Determined physical RAM map:

Sat Jan  1 01:02:03 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL]  memory: 0000000007800000 @ 0000000000700000 (usable)

Sat Jan  1 01:02:03 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] Built 1 zonelists.  Total pages: 30276

Sat Jan  1 01:02:03 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] Primary instruction cache 32kB, virtually tagged, 4 way, 64 sets, linesize 128 bytes.

Sat Jan  1 01:02:03 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] Primary data cache 16kB, 64-way, 2 sets, linesize 128 bytes.

Sat Jan  1 01:02:03 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] PID hash table entries: 512 (order: 9, 4096 bytes)

Sat Jan  1 01:02:03 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] Using 400.000 MHz high precision timer.

Sat Jan  1 01:02:03 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)

Sat Jan  1 01:02:03 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)

Sat Jan  1 01:02:03 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 800.39 BogoMIPS (lpj=1600785)

Sat Jan  1 01:02:03 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] Mount-cache hash table entries: 256

Sat Jan  1 01:02:03 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] Checking for the multiply/shift bug... no.

Sat Jan  1 01:02:03 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] Checking for the daddi bug... no.

Sat Jan  1 01:02:03 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] Checking for the daddiu bug... no.

Sat Jan  1 01:02:03 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] Enabling Octeon big bar support

Sat Jan  1 01:02:03 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] PCI Status: PCI 32-bit

Sat Jan  1 01:02:03 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)

Sat Jan  1 01:02:03 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] TCP established hash table entries: 4096 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)

Sat Jan  1 01:02:03 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)

Sat Jan  1 01:02:03 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] /proc/octeon_perf: Octeon performace counter interface loaded

Sat Jan  1 01:02:03 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0

Sat Jan  1 01:02:03 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] RAMDISK driver initialized: 1 RAM disks of 500000K size 1024 blocksize

Sat Jan  1 01:02:03 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] GACT probability NOT on

Sat Jan  1 01:02:03 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] Mirror/redirect action on

Sat Jan  1 01:02:03 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] u32 classifier

Sat Jan  1 01:02:03 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL]     Performance counters on

Sat Jan  1 01:02:03 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL]     Actions configured

Sat Jan  1 01:02:03 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] ip_conntrack version 2.4 (480 buckets, 3840 max) - 352 bytes per conntrack

Sat Jan  1 01:02:03 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] ip_conntrack_rtsp v0.6.21 loading

Sat Jan  1 01:02:03 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] ip_nat_rtsp v0.6.21 loading

Sat Jan  1 01:02:03 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team

Sat Jan  1 01:02:04 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] netfilter PSD loaded - (c) astaro AG

Sat Jan  1 01:02:04 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] ipt_time loading

Sat Jan  1 01:02:04 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] Bootbus flash: Setting flash for 32MB flash at 0x1dc00000

Sat Jan  1 01:02:04 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL]  Amd/Fujitsu Extended Query Table at 0x0040

Sat Jan  1 01:02:04 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] phys_mapped_flash: CFI does not contain boot bank location. Assuming top.

Sat Jan  1 01:02:04 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] BOOT BUS: Address decode error

Sat Jan  1 01:02:04 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] cavium-ethernet: Cavium Networks Octeon SDK version 1.7.3, build 264

Sat Jan  1 01:02:04 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] Register the sysctl for hardware offload succeed 0

Sat Jan  1 01:02:04 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] Register the sysctl for flow cache succeed

Sat Jan  1 01:02:04 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] Register the sysctl for brcm Tag succeed

Sat Jan  1 01:02:04 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] Register the sysctl for vlan enabled succeed

Sat Jan  1 01:02:04 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] Pool 0 size 2048 No 1024

Sat Jan  1 01:02:04 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] Pool 1 size 128 No 1024

Sat Jan  1 01:02:04 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] Pool 3 size 128 No 10240

Sat Jan  1 01:02:04 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] global cache allocation start 0

Sat Jan  1 01:02:04 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] Ipforward global cache allocation sucessfull

Sat Jan  1 01:02:04 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] Registerd the sysctl for IMP port status

Sat Jan  1 01:02:04 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] Registerd the sysctl for 802.1x enabled port

Sat Jan  1 01:02:04 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] Registerd the sysctl for blocking non EAP packets status

Sat Jan  1 01:02:04 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] Interface 0 has 3 ports (RGMII)

Sat Jan  1 01:02:04 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] 999

Sat Jan  1 01:02:04 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] 1002

Sat Jan  1 01:02:04 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] 1040

Sat Jan  1 01:02:04 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] 1042

Sat Jan  1 01:02:04 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] port ko 0

Sat Jan  1 01:02:04 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] port ko 1

Sat Jan  1 01:02:04 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] port ko 2

Sat Jan  1 01:02:04 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] led module init...

Sat Jan  1 01:02:04 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] umi: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel.

Sat Jan  1 01:02:04 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] eth0: 1000 Mbps Full duplex, port  0, queue  0

Sat Jan  1 01:02:04 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] eth1: 1000 Mbps Full duplex, port  1, queue  1

Sat Jan  1 01:02:04 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] PF_key: Initialized Security Policy Database.

Sat Jan  1 01:02:04 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] IPsec: Initialized Security Association Processing.

Sat Jan  1 01:02:04 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] BUG: at kernel/softirq.c:138 local_bh_enable()

Sat Jan  1 01:02:04 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] Call Trace:[][][][][][][][][][][][

Sat Jan  1 01:02:04 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] Intializing the 8021P-DSCP Remark Module

Sat Jan  1 01:02:04 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] Registerd the sysctl for _8021p task IMP port<6>registering backend engine with xlr8Nat framework

Sat Jan  1 01:02:04 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] Registerd the sysctl reboot status

Sat Jan  1 01:02:04 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:03.0 (0000 -> 0002)

Sat Jan  1 01:02:04 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] vap0: Broadcom BCM432b 802.11 Wireless Controller 5.60.120.9

Sat Jan  1 01:02:05 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] HTB: quantum of class 10001 is big. Consider r2q change.

Sat Jan  1 01:02:05 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] ip_conntrack_pptp version 3.1 loaded

Sat Jan  1 01:02:05 2000(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] ip_nat_pptp version 3.0 loaded

Fri Feb 24 09:41:59 2012(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] WARNING:cvmx_ptr_to_phys() passed a NULL pointer

Fri Feb 24 09:42:00 2012(GMT+0100) [rv220w][Kernel][KERNEL] cvm_ipfwd_cache_flow: Failed to allocate flow info buffer

Sat Jan  1 00:02:00 2000(UTC) [rv220w][Local0-wireless][PNAC_USR] Error from pnacPhyPortDestroy: port not configured

Sat Jan  1 00:02:00 2000(UTC) [rv220w][Local0-wireless][PNAC_USR] pnacUmiPhyPortDestroy: Failed to destroy the port

Any duplicate entries have been removed.

My 2 cents, the problem is definitely software related, because when the device performs, it performs ok. Unfortunately, its not stable, too much errors exist so either the development kit does not provide sufficient access or the knowledge is not present. I've already ordered a new router (non-Cisco) but will periodically test new firmware to see if the problem is solved in the future.

Good luck with the Beta firmware, let us know the outcome!

[terminalx]

Was finally able to reproduce for Cisco support.

I did have some overall internet ping speed improvements just by turning off auto negotiate on the WAN side. That said, it's still dropping pings, even to the router interface with the error I mentioned above.

My logs/config/etc are being analyzed by Cisco, and on to Level 2 support. I'll update this list when I find out more.

One thing  I am happy about is the quality of Cisco support here so far. Thanks Jason M for you webex/troubleshooting on this one. Hopefully its something that can be tweaked and resolved.

We shall see.

-Henry

[Cosimo Amore]

Hello Henry

Has there been any feedback from Cisco so far?

I'm interested in the results since I'm facing the same issue.

Cosimo