[Coddie]

Hi,
I've tried searching the forum for an answer to my problem so now I'm just gonna ask yall to see if any one knows anything about this.

I have a WRT54GL v.1.1 running DD-WRT v23 SP1 Final (05/16/06) std. My computer is running XP SP2.

Everything works fine with my router, but every now and then I lose my internet connection. I can acces the router via the web GUI and I can ping the router but that's all. The only thing that seems to make the conection work again is to unplug the router, plug the internet connection into my computer, un-plug and finally re-plugging it into the router. Then everything runs fine for some hours before my connection is lost again.

Doen anyone now what could be the issue? I'm a noob at all this, but it's getting kind of frustrating....


Cheers!

C

[HWS]

Router Slowdown

[Coddie]

Nope, already tried that. No improvement.

[Coddie]

Ok, it seems that my Internet connection gets dropped every time there's a DHCP renewal.

After my DHCP has expired, and I supposedly has renewed my IP, I can ping the router and I can ping the WAN address but nothing else. Any one has any idea what might be wrong?

[hollaatmitch]

[rkloost]

What kind of internet connection do you have?
which provider?

I myself run a WRT54GL without problems... 24x7 up
dd-wrt v23 SP1 Final dd 16/05/2006 (generic)

No keepalive configured

BTW: try to use the internal reboot button on the admin page.

Regards,
Ruud

[javadaddy]

Same problem here ... intermittent Internet connectivity. Drops out about every couple of minutes or so.

Config:
-WRT54GL with v23sp1 standard
-Internet connection is Verizon DSL (US west coast)
-Obtain WAN IP address using DHCP
-Use is home LAN, wired and WiFI, 5 computers running Win2K, WinXPsp2, WM2003, Linux

Syslog info:
-Kiwisyslog daemon used to record syslogd msgs from router
-Syslog msgs shows router receiving and dropping external connections during time when Internet connectivity is lost to computers on my LAN (these are properly being dropped "visitors" poking around for open ports)
-Syslog also shows router renewing WAN ip address every 90 seconds

currently I pulled the WRT54GL out of my network as the loss of internet connectivity makes it unusable

will continue to debug but would appreciate any advice in meantime

anyone else seeing this problem w/a 54GL and the v23sp1 build?

[krilleny]

I'm having the exact same problem, but I use a plain-old WRT54G (version 5). I just switched to DD-WRT yesterday, so I have no experience with versions prior to v23 SP1.

My PC is running XP SP2 also.

I love the features of DD-WRT but Internet access is high on the list of things I look for in a router I'm hoping to avoid having to switch back to the crummy Linksys firmware.

I'd be grateful for any suggestions, as I'm sure would other posters here...

[gaald]

I am having the exact same problem my connection seems to go down every now and than and I would hate to go back to using the linksys firmware. I currently have the logging function on to see if I can catch what might be happening when the connection goes down but as yet I haven't been around to check it as it happens.

[gaald]

Ok I tried the log feature on the router to see if I could find out what was happening when the router loses it's connection, unfortunately it was no help. I also tried all the suggestion made earlier in the post and those don't work either.

This is the second alternate firmware I have tried with the linksys WRT54GL router and although this one seems more stable having my connection drop 4-5 times a day is just not good. I hate having to go back to the original firmware but it looks like I might not have choice.

[javadaddy]

[makethemove]

Well, I hate to say I have same prob.... I have 2 laptops sp2 p4...and 1 wired pc.... I've got wrt54g v.3 sp1 sp2 build 7/20/06 and I have this internet lost issue atleast 3-4 times aday. As a matter of fact, I just did now b4 I was reading this post and this is driving me nuts... I guess I'll just hang around until someone figures out the way around this.

Hopefully, brilliant BSL will have a fix for this.

[rkloost]

It seems to happen here too :-(

But with wallwatcher I have the log from around the time the lease expires:

[Coddie]

That's a very probable explanation to my problem! How can I obtain the programme that you used to log that stuff with? Even though I'm quite certain that the same thing causes my problems I would like to log the events.

Cheers!

C

[rkloost]

@Coddie:

Try googling for wallwatcher or kiwisyslogd

Regards,
Ruud

Edit1:
I just stopped wallwatcher in favor of KIWI because I want the raw logging for
debugging purposes.

Edit2:
I posted a bug-report
0001633: The ipfilter blocks the DHCP renewals causing the connection to drop