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--- admin-debug [2024/10/21 02:14] – -Formatting, condense, grammar, spelling hogwild
+++ admin-debug [2025/04/09 17:09] (current) – -change "accordingly" to "appropriately" hogwild
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 ===== Debugging =====
-The Debugging page helps you tweak some parameters to allow better troubleshooting of any issues with your router.
+The Debugging page lets you tweak some parameters to allow better troubleshooting of router issues.
-\\ {{:pasted:20220107-075831.png}}\\  \\
+ \\ \\ {{:pasted:20220107-075831.png}}\\  \\
+ \\
 **Avoid performing an NVRAM commit** - stops configuration settings from permanently saving to NVRAM until this is disabled again.
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-**Enable segfault logging - **enabling this option causes segfault errors to be logged.
+**Enable segfault logging - **causes segfault errors to be logged.
-By default, segfault errors aren't logged via syslog. Segfaults are Linux errors caused by a program trying to read from/write to an illegal memory location.
+By default, syslog doesn't log segfault errors. Segfaults are Linux errors caused by a program trying to read from/write to an illegal memory location.
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-**Count cache memory and buffers as free memory** - affects how Linux handles RAM allocation, which is split into Used + cache + buffer.
+**Count cache memory and buffers as free memory** - affects how Linux handles RAM allocation, (split into Used + cache + buffer).
 If enabled, this causes cache memory and buffer to be counted as free. (Default: enabled).
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 **Avoid displaying LAN to router connections -** prevents LAN connections from displaying in menus with //conntrack//-related data.
-This includes the ///QoS///[[qos-detailed|View Details]] menu.\\   \\   \\  {{:pasted:20220107-082615.png}} \\
+This includes the ///QoS///[[qos-detailed|View Details]] menu.\\   \\   \\ {{:pasted:20220107-082615.png}} \\
-\\ **Kernel printk log level**:FIXME
+\\  \\
+**Kernel printk log level**:FIXME
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-**Set "no-cache" in httpd header - **A frequent issue is that cached browser content can create errors/issues in the web interface. Usually, refreshing the webpage, fixes this problem by flushing the cache. However, setting this parameter is an alternative solution. This tells the browser not to perform any caching while on FreshTomato web interface pages. Both methods are useful after firmware upgrades.
+**Set "no-cache" in httpd header - **cached browser content can often create errors/issues in the web interface. Usually, refreshing the webpage fixes the problem by flushing the cache. However, setting this parameter is an alternative solution. It tells the browser not to perform any caching while on FreshTomato web interface pages. Both methods are useful after firmware upgrades.
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 »  Clear browser cookies - clears the cookies in your web browser.
- \\ »  Clear browser cache - clears the browser cache of static content. This includes static graphics, CSS, HTML and Javascript. \\ This helps prevent incorrect/garbled content from displaying in the web interface when the browser is displaying stale, cached, outdated content.
+ \\ »  Clear browser cache - clears the browser cache of static content. This includes static graphics, CSS, HTML and Javascript. \\ This helps prevent incorrect/garbled content from displaying in the web interface when the browser displays stale, cached, outdated content.
  \\ »  Flush DNS (dnsmasq) cache - Clicking this flushes the router's DNS cache. This purges DNS to IP mappings, so only fresh ones are used. This is useful when changing DNS server or other settings affecting DNS mappings, so the system uses only current DNS mappings.
-»  Commit NVRAM now - Clicking this saves current settings to NVRAM immediately.
+ \\
-»  Reboot - Clicking this reboots the system immediately (similar to the "Reboot..." menu).
+»  Commit NVRAM now - saves current settings to NVRAM immediately.
-»  Halt - Clicking this halts the system immediately, (similar to the "Halt..." menu option).
+ \\
+»  Reboot - reboots the system immediately (similar to the "Reboot..." menu).
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-»  Download CFE - Clicking this downloads the Common Firmware Environment file from your router. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Firmware_Environment|Common Firmware Environment]]
+»  Halt - halts the system immediately, (similar to the "Halt..." menu option).
- \\ \\ »  Download Iptables Dump - Clicking this downloads a copy of the IPv4 iptables firewall rule file.
+ \\
+»  Download CFE - downloads the Common Firmware Environment file from your router.
+[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Firmware_Environment|Common Firmware Environment]]
+ \\ \\ »  Download Iptables Dump - downloads a copy of the IPv4 iptables firewall rule file.
  \\
-»  Download Ip6tables Dump - Clicking this downloads of the IPv6 iptables firewall rule file.
+»  Download Ip6tables Dump - downloads of the IPv6 iptables firewall rule file.
 \\
-»  Download Logs - Clicking this downloads a copy of the syslog file.
+»  Download Logs - downloads a copy of the syslog file.
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-» Download NVRAM Dump - Clicking this downloads a copy of the contents of NVRAM memory.
+» Download NVRAM Dump - downloads a copy of NVRAM memory contents.
+ \\
-Warning: This file may contain information like WiFi encryption keys, usernames/passwords for FreshTomato, your ISP and DDNS.  \\ Please review and edit this file accordingly before sharing it with anyone.
+**Warning**: This file may contain private information like WiFi encryption keys, and usernames/passwords for FreshTomato, your ISP and DDNS. Please review and edit/redact it appropriately before sharing it with anyone.
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