Yeah... I had heard it was EOL. I am only using ports 1-4, with 1 & 2 being aggregated. I have a switch in my other network 1.5 hours down the road and recognize that the issue is probably the router. I plan to put this one to pasture once all my network gear is in one place and maybe use it...
Got the culprit as it happened again... process is ksoftirqd/0. I have a NAS running lacp with a heavy workload coming from Adobe suite. Somehow, I think this is not the router that I will be using long term.
Still does not answer why my 5G dropped out of thin air...
Looks like this is rearing it's ugly head again... just had a CPU spike on an AC88U running 386.12. Was not able to get to SSH and 'top' quick enough before the spike disappeared. I'm in now and all seems normal.
I'm running multiple devices on 2.4 and 5G and earlier today, my 5G dropped to...
I figured... curious... what kind of information does one see on the other end? Public facing IP (mine happens to be static, but I am probably not the only one with it)? Port forwarded to?
I have a AC88U running an OPVN server for when I am away. Sometimes I forget to turn this off when I am home and early this morning starting at 4:30 EST, I got a hit from an IP located in Ukraine or Russia.
What I cannot see is if they successfully connected or if they were just trying to...
UPDATE:
Cleared /jffs partition at reboot and connectivity was restored.
Still would like to know why connectivity dropped just by adding a adblock script and cron job...
So... I pulled a script from the site below to build a small ad blocker on my router. I did this over a year ago with the same script with no issues. In that year, I had to reset the router due to connectivity issues. Tonight, I SSH'd in, created the script and ran and rebooted the router...
First thing... check to see that you have different ports assigned for inbound (OpenVPN) and outbound (Nord) - i.e. 1194 and 1195.
Secondly... this should explain it all...
https://www.snbforums.com/threads/simultaneous-vpn-server-and-vpn-client.39508/
Be sure to look into eibgrad's comments...