[TriLUG] OpenWRT Needs to Reboot?

[Greg Brown]

I was having the same problem (and later the device would reboot itself for
seemingly no reason) but upgrading to Kamakazie seems to have solved
everything.

Greg

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Christopher L Merrill <
chris at webperformance.com> wrote:

> Interesting - because I'm running the stock firmware and have the
> same problem.  I had considered upgrading to OpenWRT for the sole
> purpose of solving this problem.  I've noticed that the problem
> is aggravated by running a bittorrent client from behind the
> firewall for any non-trivial period of time (e.g. a few 4-8 hour
> periods).
>
> Chris
>
>
> Randy Barlow wrote:
> > Periodically, I need to reboot my Linksys WRT54Gv2 running OpenWRT 0.9
> > (White Russian).  These reboots are necessary for one of two reasons: 1)
> > the wireless stops working, and 2) my port forwarding rules stop
> > working.  Rebooting the router (i.e., unplug and replug) always solves
> > the problem, but I wonder why it happens at all in the first place.
> > It's not all too often (probably once every 3-4 weeks) but when I'm away
> > from my house and I can't get in to my machine because of the port
> > forwarding problem it's frustrating.  Anybody else ever have this
> > problem?  I suppose I could try a newer version of OpenWRT.  I've also
> > considered reverting to Linksys' software and setting up a computer as
> > the router (to implement more complex port forwarding rules, DNS, and
> QoS).
> >
>
>
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