Unable to login into AC68R unless hard reboot (FIXED)

[Sean]

Hello,

I have a AC68R running Merlin 378.50. I configured this device yesterday to my liking, and everything was just fine throughout the evening. This morning I wanted to check on some things, but when I tried to login I got this screen :
Settings have been updated. Web page will now refresh.
Changes have been made to the IP address or port number. You will now be disconnected from RT-AC68R.
To access the settings of RT-AC68R, reconnect to the wireless network and use the updated IP address and port number.
The problem is I made no recent changes for this to happen. I was able to login to the router fine before going to bed, and I had made no changes when I did so. Overnight something must have triggered this, just not sure what. All of my devices were still connected this morning and are not having any issues, it's just that I can't login unless I hard reboot it. Just curious if anyone else has experienced this and if there might be a setting I need to turn on/off.

Thanks.

 

[festus77]

Sean - I've also seen this recently running Asus stock firmware on a RT-AC68P. It wouldn't let me logon using router name, but I was able to get in using IP address. But it required a hard reboot in order to use the router name again. Never bothered to investigate the cause though.

 

[Sean]

Embarrassing to admit, but I hadn't enabled WAN access. I only had the issue outside of my network. All is well now.