I recently installed "OpenWrt Barrier Breaker 14.07 / LuCI Trunk (0.12+svn-r10530)" on my Asus RT-N56U router, and find that the router quite frequently stops responding, and I end up pulling the power cable to get it back up and running.

There's always a lot of different things that may be causing such issues, and a vast amount of things to do to troubleshoot the issue.

I'm sure others here have had the same type of issue, and I'd very much like some advice on how to start troubleshooting this starting from the most likely problem. I'm working on getting some sort of logging up and running, and I guess this will be the very first step towards understanding what's going on, but please advice on other thing to look into.

Best regards,
kenneho

(Last edited by kenneho on 5 Jun 2016, 19:23)

why are you installing a jurassic build firmware that is based on trunk.

go download the recent trunk image (if thats youre taste) or use the latest stable build which is Chaos Calmer 15.05.1

Then see if the problem persist.

Thanks, I'll give that a try. When I installed the firmware I simply followed the instructions over at https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/asus/rt-n56u, without checking if that was the latest release.

I'll install https://downloads.openwrt.org/chaos_cal … actory.bin as soon as I get the chance, and see if that helps.

I upgraded to "OpenWrt Chaos Calmer 15.05.1 / LuCI 15.05-149-g0d8bbd2 Release (git-15.363.78009-956be55)" now, and hope this will make things a lot more stable.

It looks like I'm getting hit by this bug: https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/12313