I now have tried OpenWRT 22.03.0 for a couple of weeks, but sometimes strange things start happening.
Router becomes unreponsive, pinging router, no reply.
Luci interface then hangs.
Internet not accessible.
Cannot SSH into the router.
Sometimes after a few minutes the router comes back alive, today I had to power off the router before I could login again.
I did a clean install, cleared config, and only added Advanced reboot, and WOL, and I imported DHCP settings, since I wanted to have fixed address for some devices.
I also has this when trying the 22.0.3 RC6 version.
It's really annoying, so I decided to return to 21.2.3 which is running without any issues.
I already had opened a topic for this, but hoped it was resolved in the final version, but in m case, it hadn't.
Since my setup is quite simple, I cannot understand why I do have this issue, and other people with the Linksys WRT3200ACM with probalby a more complex setup have no issues at all.
Any help/suggestion would be appreciated, else I'll just stick to this version for now.
Maybe there are any logfiles availlable on the system which would could help determining the issue?
Sidenote: That topic does not contain anything about reboots (other than in the topic title). You might want to be more specific what exactly you are experiencing: reboots or network loss.
not actually reboots now, since when the Luci interface is up/comes back, I can see that the router has been switched on since the last time I rebooted it. But with RC6, the router actually rebooted.
For me it looks the same as with RC6, Internet not working, router not pingable. SSH not working.
I do not have WPA3 enabled, since I think that this router may not support it, and I also do not have clients requiring it.
Would it be possible that the Router is not actually crashing, but more not responding due to the number of connections from a single computer, since I noticed more issues when my son is using his game PC, where he has multiple browsers open, with together more then 100 tabs, and also Steam updating
.
Last week when his computer was in repair, the router was stable enough, and troubles started after he got his computer back.
Is there a way to restrict the number of sessions per computer / IP address?
SSH is [only] allowed on LAN by default. So it may help to make sure this doesn't happen with a default config.
I was thinking somehow you mucked the firewall; but your theory on traffic could be possible too. You can run top or look at the load while your son is gaming, etc. to check.
Regarding restrictions by host - sure, there's many threads on the forum regarding that.