Unexpected loss of connection to router - all clients

[David Partridge]

Several times today, ALL the machines on my local network lost connection to the router (Xwrt-Vortex 380.66_2 on Netgear R7000). Where the machines have both wired and wireless interfaces, neither can communicate. I can only re-establish connections by power off/on the router. Is there a way to cause a reboot w/o power off so I don't loose syslog entries?

When the problem occurred, the LEDs on the router looked ALMOST just like they do when everything is working (Power and all three wireless LEDS on, WAN LED flashing very occasionally????, and the LAN LED flashing normally).

After power off/on of the router, I found nothing in syslog that suggested anything amiss. If anyone can suggest what information I can collect for debug and how to get it, I'm happy to provide it.

Should it be relevant I was overclocking the router at 1400,800, but I've now backed that off to 1300,800 in case overclocking was the cause of the problem. CPU temperature never exceeded 62C.

This is a newly acquired machine which was flashed with Xwrt-Vortex only 2 days ago.

Thanks
Dave

 

[RMerlin]

Asuswrt wasn't designed for that router model. You are using wireless driver that were finetuned specifically for whichever model Xvortex chose to base his build on (I assume it's the RT-AC68U drivers).

You will have to contact him regarding any issue.

 

[David Partridge]

I don't think that at this stage we can blame this on the wireless drivers . I'm asking how best to determine the cause of the problem (lets assume for now that I'm NOT using a Netgear router). If the debugging points to XVortex's work, I'll happily go pester him ...

 

[AndreiV]

I'm asking how best to determine the cause of the problem

and Merlin answered .......... " Asuswrt wasn't designed for that router model. "

ANY query on XVortex's work must be addressed to him.

 

[JDB]

This is his official forum/thread for the project http://www.linksysinfo.org/index.php?threads/asuswrt-merlin-on-netgear-r7000.71108/


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[David Partridge]

This is his official forum/thread for the project http://www.linksysinfo.org/index.php?threads/asuswrt-merlin-on-netgear-r7000.71108/

OK guys I'll leave you alone

D.

 

[RMerlin]

I don't think that at this stage we can blame this on the wireless drivers . I'm asking how best to determine the cause of the problem (lets assume for now that I'm NOT using a Netgear router). If the debugging points to XVortex's work, I'll happily go pester him ...

Only he knows what changes he makes to the code, since he refuses to publish it.

 

[Deleted member 22229]

Only he knows what changes he makes to the code, since he refuses to publish it.

Yeah and who knows what back doors he has added to that code.

 

[sfx2000]

Several times today, ALL the machines on my local network lost connection to the router (Xwrt-Vortex 380.66_2 on Netgear R7000). Where the machines have both wired and wireless interfaces, neither can communicate. I can only re-establish connections by power off/on the router. Is there a way to cause a reboot w/o power off so I don't loose syslog entries?

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This is a newly acquired machine which was flashed with Xwrt-Vortex only 2 days ago.

Please revert to Netgear's firmware, and check out the efforts over on their OpenRouter site - you'll be better supported there...

AsusWRT-RMerlin works well on the devices he supports - the R7000 is not one of them.

Yes, AsusWRT is GPL, so people can fork it, and do things to improve it... and Asus has been gracious enough to include all the bits and blobs to successfully build AsusWRT from their GPL drop - many vendors do not, withholding important stuff (vendor stuff) and only including their changes to the GPL code.

GPL works when people share back - it fails when they don't...