Ok, so, after bricking my router, waiting 3-4 days for a TTL serial to USB cable, and then debricking, upgrading, changing, updating to different, I think I now have a firmware with features I like.
It's a Toastman USB 1.28 build.
Too many open firmwares to choose from, still missing one feature another had, but leaves 2mb for JFFS system to store other stuff and still connect to my Win server (cifs) for logging/other transfer
stuff.
My firmware is now saving me ~100GB a month.
I'm only at 82G now of my monthly allotment of 300. And that's with my spouse sick at home last week watching marathon seasons of various shows on Netflix.
Not only can I see which devices are using the bandwidth from GUI, I can tell when/for how long.
Now on to my next help wanted question;It's been almost 15 years since I got to play in a *nix environment that I owned.
(Played in career up until about 7 years ago)
Doing a netstat while ssh into the router itself gives much stuff, most of which I know/have experience with, except for the following UDP ports.
udp 0 0 localhost:38032 0.0.0.0:*
udp 0 0 localhost:38000 0.0.0.0:*
raw 0 0 0.0.0.0:255 0.0.0.0:* 255
Though I've always been happy with my Google-Fu - I can't find any description of what those ports are/what they do. ONLY many other mentions of them.
I'm guessing 255 is a broadcast listening agent of some sort.
But, can't for the life of me find 38000 and 38032 explained.
Can anyone here shed light as to what they are?
(And, if you have a WNR3500L laying around, will give a tutorial/tips/steps for how I updated my router to TomatoUSB 1.28, Toastman or Shibby)