Ah that sounds similar to how my router would die. Ironically I could often get to the internet but local stuff would die... and there was no way at all to load the router config page to get it to reboot, i had to do it manually.
It wouldn't surprise me if whatever tickled my router into stupid-mode (my guess: running out of memory for caching connections, which it needs to do for NAT) since most routers are really just simple Linux boxes running in very low memory... more RAM in the router might fix things, but it isn't like that is easy to do at all. I especially found this to be horrible when I started doing some port forwards through the router (which is really dumb -- it doesnt really NAT those, so it shouldnt use memory), which changed the failure rate from once every couple of weeks to mere hours. My solution was to just steal a nic from an old machine and convert a real linux box (with plenty of RAM) into a router... I would say it isnt exactly "green" but then, it was on anyway, so electrical usage went down a tad when I converted the router into a plain old Access Point. Powercycling the outer would get it out of stupid mode, but that does get annoying fast. You shouldn't need to press the hidden reset button, just a power cycle. (I never know if hiddent reset buttons do a 'factory reset' and wipe settings, which would be even more annoying.) -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41111 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
