I've been thinking along the same lines, but was told off by someone working at Kingston:
These flash memory devices have their own load-leveling software on board to even out load to all parts of the memory. Using JFFS2 would be counter-productive, since the load-leveling algorithms in the filesystem and on the stick will work against each other.
Use any non-journaling file system on the flash unit - ext2 would be a good choice.
Or adopt my layout: I am using two flash sticks in my routers: one for more or less static data and one for often changing data. Then I use a cron job to backup data from the often changing flash onto the other one every 4 hours. I also have that done before a controlled reboot of the router. Thus I loose only 4 hours of data in worst case, and I dont have to have an expensive, noisy and eventually unreliable hard disk. Flash memorys are cheap nowadays - I pay 180SEK for 1Gb ~20EUR, so I can afford to change the often changing flash when it fails - but it has not failed yet.

Maybe you would want to have a look at these Kamikaze images - they already contain the WebIf^2 and some other goodies:
http://downloads.x-wrt.org/xwrt/kamikaze/7.06/brcm-2.4/
Looking forward to the new Kamikaze tut's!

Am I the only one having problems with releases  1.9.2.7-7e - 1.9.2.7-7g ?
My post-firewall script is almost never run after reboot. Only way to make it run, is to use the web-interface and go to the status page and press the Connect button a couple of times. This is a bit inconvenient when the router is far away, and the vpn has not been started for above reasons.
Sometimes even post-boot is not run, though, fortunately, post-mount seems always to be run.
With 1.9.2.7-7c and earlier everything worx as expected.
Any ideas?

Oleg made a new release some days ago. Here is what's new:

   1. Switched to Busybox 1.1.3
   2. VT6212 USB 2.0 patch (10-15% speedup)
   3. USB sticks without MBR should be also now mounted
   4. Storage devices are using async options by default
   5.
   6. WL500g Premium support (MirrorBit Flash support, nvram validation, 32mb enabled) !!! The firmware is totally different from the stock one: no DM, different FTP server and Samba! Do not flash if in doubt - you would miss some features !!!
   7. Additional pppd options field is now 255 chars long
   8. PPP now defaults to unlimited number of connection attempts
   9. PPTP connections now use MTU 1400 by default
  10. DHCP+PPTP (0.0.0.0 gateway support in the MAN routes, DNS and default gateway options now could be acquired from DHCP too, symbolic PPTP name support, PPTP client now adds route to the server)
  11. Fixed MAN->LAN firewall issue (be sure to enable WAN to LAN filter and set default action to DROP!)
  12. Fixed some firewall defaults (WAN->LAN is now enabled and DROPs)
  13. "Apply to routing table" option is now in effect
  14. Default gateway is no longer appears in the nameserver list in the AP mode
  15. WL550gE radio on/off feature should work better now (added missing nvram variables)
  16. SIGALRM is no longer blocked in the post-mount
  17. Minor bugs...

Link->Oleg's latest

/PjK

I'm afraid it does not. See Oleg's repository.
I cannot see any firmware for WL-500W there?
It seems to be quite new, that's probably the reason.
There are several threads asking the same in WL500 info forae, but so far I did not find any where Oleg has made a statement.
See also:
What happened to the WL-500gP? And how is the WL-500W?
It is also not yet listed in OpenWrt's lists of compatible devices:
OpenWRT Table of Hardware

I would recommend you to ask Oleg directly if and when there will be a release for this unit.
Do that in WL500 info forae

Don't open your ftp or telnet port to the internet. Sooner or later someone WILL break in and compromise your system. Only open port 22 for dropbear or SSH, or, better still, use an arbitrary port number, i.e. 12322 for SSH, and use tunnels for your ftp and other needs. Read the openssh docs at openssh.org to find out how. Use putty as your SSH client to log in and set up the tunnels; putty is available both for windows and linux, also have a look at winscp.
To enhance your security even more, don't allow password logins to SSH, only public key. Also don't allow root SSH logins, YOU can always su after login.
Before I switched from port 22 to an arbitrary port for SSH i had about 3 break-in attempts per minute, mainly from China and Romania, now about one every three months.

Sorry for answering so late, but maybe bettter late than never - I see that the originator of this topic (FridolinKölnerwasser ) is still an active poster...

I had this problem a couple of times with my router in the summer house, where there is less reliable power delivery, and lots of thunder. I bought one of those El Cheapo power line protectors with built-in phone line protector. Cost me ~12 EUR, and I never had that problem again. But beware! The first one I tried blocked off the adsl totally, so I got another one that worked, and used the first one to secure phone and computer instead.

And it gives that nice feeling to know you are protected...

 
Oleg made a new release some days ago. Here is what's new:

   1. Wi-Fi module updated to 3.90.37
   2. MTU clamping is fixed once again (should solve lags problems)
   3. USB updates (should improve stability)
   4. PPTP/PPPoE allows now DHCP to be used on the WAN port - just specify 0.0.0.0 as static address
   5. Built-in SSH server should now correctly call sftp installed using ipkg
   6. Webcam drivers update: ov51x-1.65-1.12, pwc 9.0.2 (incl. compression and 640x480)
   7. Kernel support for IPSec NAT-T
   8. WL550gE is supported now

Link->Oleg's latest

Anybody tried it?

/PjK

It is now listed at komplett.se,
http://www.komplett.se/k/ki.asp?sku=320619,
preliminarily for 2006-06-16, priced 3195 SEK ~ 340 EUR ~ 430 USD.

They also list WL-500 g Premium,
http://www.komplett.se/k/ki.asp?sku=321717
with 10 days delivery, priced 1095 SEK ~ 115 EUR ~ 150 USD,

or try
http://www.komplett.com/
to find if they are represented in your area.

They dont list WL-500 gx any more.

I am a very happy customer at Komplett - quick delivery (has always arrived within two days if they show the item as stocked) , OK prices and a nice and friendly return policy that actually works.
I try to place all my buys there.
***-- I am NOT in any way affiliated to Komplett... ***
/PjK

The way I have understood these functions is, that when the offender has been quiet for 3600 seconds, his entry is dropped from the BANDIT ip list, and he is free to start new offences, and, of course, be added to the BANDIT name again.
I have actually once locked myself out that way, and, true enough, after an hour of silence I could log in again. That was why I choose the 3600 seconds in the first place - I know I'm not infallable. And I can afford to wait one hour on those (few?) occasions.
/PjK

I have analyzed it further:
It not only hangs when graphing, I also get a 'segmentation error' when trying
'rrdtool dump /opt/var/lib/eth1.rrd' after a few lines of output.
I have tried to install rrdtools from the unslung ipk repository.
I have also recompiled all required ipk's from the openwrt trunk, but using them gave even more disastrous results.

I'm sorry, I've been very busy, so I have not had the time to answer. And, unfortunately, I will be very busy until after the Easter holidays, so it will take some time before I can analyze what you have done.
But I can say this:
What I showed here is an excerpt from the firewall I am using in two installations, and they are working as expected. But, as they are excerpts, it IS possible I made an error when making the excerpts.
On the other hand, you must be VERY careful when re-arranging: a sequence error WITHIN a table might be desastrous, as would an omission be.
/PjK

Yes, I'm using the script for the Oleg distro. But I have tried also (simplified) manual graphing commands as they are described in the man files.
Would be great if you could find your old scripts, though I don't think that the scripts are the present problem. It's just that any graphical commands cause rrdtool to hang without any error printouts. The same rrdtool commands on the copied rrd-file work fine on a router with oleg's distro.
/PjK

Hi,
I have tried to get rrdtool running on my test unit WL500GX with OpenWrt RC5.
Data collection works, I can dump data from the rrd-files, but the rrdtool graph commands hang indefinitely. I have rrdtool running on my two other routers with Oleg's distro, and I tried copying the rrd-file from the OpenWrt machine to the Oleg router, and then images are generated ok, so there is nothing wrong with the data collection, only with the graphing.
Could it be a configuration error? I believe i should get some error messages if any dependencies are missing?
Any ideas?
It seems from some threads here that some people succeeded?
/PjK

Hi,
Is there any way to access tutorials from the old site that are missing on the new one?
Like the rrdtool and the perl tut's?
/PjK