AC66U port forward entry restarts router?

[5mall5nail5]

Hey guys - whenever I add a port forward into the router it seems to take as long as it does for the router to boot up. In fact, I lose internet and routing while it does it. Is this ordinary?

 

[RMerlin]

Hey guys - whenever I add a port forward into the router it seems to take as long as it does for the router to boot up. In fact, I lose internet and routing while it does it. Is this ordinary?

Yes, if you have hardware acceleration enabled, the router needs to reboot to apply the changes to the proprietary Broadcom module.

 

[5mall5nail5]

Yes, if you have hardware acceleration enabled, the router needs to reboot to apply the changes to the proprietary Broadcom module.

Darn. And I am guessing with hardware acceleration disabled things are lame?

 

[RMerlin]

Darn. And I am guessing with hardware acceleration disabled things are lame?

Not at all. An RT-AC66U can work with a WAN speed of up to 100-150 Mbits without HW acceleration enabled.

 

[5mall5nail5]

Not at all. An RT-AC66U can work with a WAN speed of up to 100-150 Mbits without HW acceleration enabled.

Hm maybe I should consider that then - what are the drawbacks? Any internal (LAN) throughput compromises?

Thanks!

 

[RMerlin]

Hm maybe I should consider that then - what are the drawbacks? Any internal (LAN) throughput compromises?

Thanks!

HW acceleration should only affect WAN to LAN performance.

Do you need to modify your port forwards that often that the reboot involved is an issue? Port forwards are usually something configured once and never changed afterward.

One thing I always wondered tho is why CTF doesn't interfere with UPNP... Something only Broadcom could answer I suppose.

 

[5mall5nail5]

HW acceleration should only affect WAN to LAN performance.

Do you need to modify your port forwards that often that the reboot involved is an issue? Port forwards are usually something configured once and never changed afterward.

One thing I always wondered tho is why CTF doesn't interfere with UPNP... Something only Broadcom could answer I suppose.

Yeah I don't need to port forward that much I just picked up a Synology DS214 so I've been playing with what ports I am opening and such and my wife is using internet and such usually when I am setting things up so it'd be nice to not bump her off, but I can live with it and like you said I don't really need to make changes too much.