Buffalo WZR-HP-AG300H weirdness

[dwyw]

I just bought a Buffalo WZR-HP-AG300H and loaded Gargoyle 1.5.8 on it (gargoyle_1.5.8-ar71xx-generic-wzr-hp-ag300h-squashfs-factory.bin via the stock firmware upgrade page). It seemed to work at first. I had only my laptop plugged into it, and I was able to set up the configuration just fine, although some pages would occasionally take 10-15 seconds to load.

Then I plugged my cable modem into the WAN and connected via WiFi, which again seemed to work fine overnight. This morning I plugged the wired parts of my network in, and it immediately went into endless reboots. The red diag light would come on and start flashing, then go solid for 20 seconds, and then it would reboot, rinse, repeat. Even doing a 30/30/30 had no effect. The one thing I can think of, is I may have entered an incorrect IP address in the DHCP static IP table for one of the wired connections, that may have caused a conflict? I'm not positive on that though.

Then I completely unplugged all wired connections, including the WAN, and I was able to get it to boot normally. Weird thing was that all the settings were retained, despite the 30/30/30. But as soon as I plugged the WAN in even without the other wired connections, it started doing the reboot dance again.

I unplugged the WAN again and got it to boot normally, then I went to the management page and restored all default settings, which got me back to stable and can plug the WAN/LAN stuff in without reboots, except the red diag light comes on and stays on. Is this normal? I don't remember it being on immediately after I installed it before all hell broke loose.

If not, can I simply reflash the bin file or do I need to do something else to reload the same version?

This is my first time trying Gargoyle out, but I've been using dd-wrt on Linksys routers for many years now.

[pbix]

Well I am not sure what caused your strangeness I will tell you that the 30/30/30 reboot method is DD-WRT exclusive and has no effect in OpenWRT.

To reload parameter in Gargoyle you can reset them from the GUI or you can establish an SSH command line session and type 'firstboot'. FInally when you load a new version of firmware you normally erase any configuration settings you have done.

You can reload the firmware anytime and I would advise you not to try and save any settings since there is some question about this.

As an ex DD-WRT person myself welcome to Gargoyle.