Posted: Thu May 07, 2015 13:06 Post subject: WHR-HP-G300N on 25648 stops accepting one specific client
Reliable router has worked great for long time over series of revisions and updates - no issues. Then updated to 25760 a few weeks ago and the found DNSmasq was broken in that so had to revert to 25648 and thought all was well.
Unfortunately new problem is that after some time, one specific Windows 7x64 client drops off the wifi and cannot reconnect - attempts to associate are dropped or refused.
Numerous other clients can connect and remain connected during this time - iOs devices, WinXP, OSX, embedded systems, etc. so it seems just this client is getting refused or blocked...
The one thing about the client in question is that it is highly active and opens/closes by far the most connections.
Router reboots nightly, but this can occur as soon as 7-9hrs into a reboot seems to depend on traffic level from this client.
Have logged into the console and tried to look at logs but don't see anything pertinent. Haven't setup syslogd yet but might be the next step if another upgrade doesn't work...
Going to flash the latest beta and see if that helps but of course am hoping the DNSMasq issue has been fixed... if not then that will not help...
Anything older than 25948 has ath9k bugs so you'll get wifi dropouts/disconnects/freezes on Atheros-based routers.
I recommend latest build 26854 released today (should be fine) or previous (relatively) stable one 26653, see the ftp link in my signature. _________________ THERE ARE NO STRANGERS HERE; ONLY FRIENDS YOU HAVEN'T YET MET.
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Anything older than 25948 has ath9k bugs so you'll get wifi dropouts/disconnects/freezes on Atheros-based routers.
I recommend latest build 26854 released today (should be fine) or previous (relatively) stable one 26653, see the ftp link in my signature.
Thanks - you're confirming what probably I was seeing. Good to know "it is a thing".
I have loaded todays build and it's running well so far, but FYI DNSMasq is STILL broken in that one.
I have relented and left that build on, and am now running DHCPd and seems fine but the DD-WRT conventional wisdom has always been to run DNSMasq insteadas its more resource efficient and so would be great if that could be fixed.... going on 6 months now that's been broken in these releases...
Sorry, didn't notice... juggling too many things at once _________________ THERE ARE NO STRANGERS HERE; ONLY FRIENDS YOU HAVEN'T YET MET.
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Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2015 14:57 Post subject: Re: WHR-HP-G300N on 25648 stops accepting one specific clien
vibranto wrote:
Reliable router has worked great for long time over series of revisions and updates - no issues. Then updated to 25760 a few weeks ago and the found DNSmasq was broken in that so had to revert to 25648 and thought all was well.
Unfortunately new problem is that after some time, one specific Windows 7x64 client drops off the wifi and cannot reconnect - attempts to associate are dropped or refused.
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Per this post, seems tweaking the DNSMasq Options might be the solution to the problem I was having.
