WDR3600 loses internet

[AzharC]

Hello,

I have been using Gargoyle since March and have major problems once every 4 or 5 weeks where all connectivity is lost. If clients are connected when it 'goes down' they experience complete slow down in internet connectivity speed almost to a grinding halt. After that, only a 'limited connection' can be established with no internet.

My setup is:
All clients by static IP
Any unknown devices given DHCP 192.168.1.200 and above
Group control in place with quotas set and restrictions on them (kids)

When it all goes down, the WDR3600 dishes out IP addresses in the range 169.254.0.x!!
In order for me to access the WDR3600, I have to set my network card to a static IP address in order to get in to the Gargoyle interface.
When in, all seems well. It has a WAN IP address as normal, all my static client lists are there etc... nothing wrong. I just can't get it to work.

If I restore a saved image, that won't make it work either. It still gives out the wrong IP address scope.

The only way I can get it working is to re-flash as new and manually build the whole thing back up which takes one hour. 4 to 5 weeks later, it goes down again.
It has done this on version 1.7 and 1.8.

It's not overloaded. I have only used 20Mb of RAM.

Any ideas as to what is wrong is very welcome.

I read other people using this router are having similar problems??? They say when they remove the quotas, it doesn't do it. I haven't tried that yet but will.

Why is the DHCP giving IP addresses in the wrong scope??

Kind regards,

Azhar

[Lantis]

DHCP doesn't give out 169 addresses. You're getting an APIPA because the DHCP server isn't dishing out anything useful.


Does a reboot solve the issue rather than a re-flash?


I'd be inclined to suggest disabling quotas as suggested. It certainly does cause some unwanted behaviour but I've not heard of this.

[AzharC]

Hi

No, a reboot does nothing at all.
I bought this router as i thought it was the most tried and tested of them all.
When it works, its faultless and does exactly what i intended.
Its bricked at the moment while trying ro do a sysupgrade to 1.90 so Ill have to get my linux box out and SSH in.
Yet even now where after doing rhe sysupgrade, all lights on the front appear as normal.

Its very strange. Just before the sysupgrade, i did remove all quotas but this did nothing either.

Regards,

Azhar

[AzharC]

The only way I could get it working again was to re-flash it with the factory.bin file.

I've lost all my settings and am a bit reluctant to pursue with this router only for it to fall over again in one month's time.

Azhar

[nworbnhoj]

Often the Gargoyle developers advise not to preserve settings when upgrading because some part of the structure has fundamentally changed. But it is relatively easy to recover the time-consuming aspects of reconfiguring many devices with static IP's and quotas.

There are three files to extract from your Gargoyle backup and copy back manually into the router.
/etc/hosts
/etc/ethers
/etc/config/firewall
to my knowlege, the structure of these files has not changed in recent times.

The basic steps are to:
- reflash the router or use the firstboot command at the Gargoyle command-line.
- complete the basic initial Gargoyle config
- extract a prior backup on your PC
- use a linux command like scp to copy these files back into their original locations
- reboot the router