Hi, I use my Flint 2 as my main home router which connects to my fibre to the home box and is setup using PPPoE. The problem is that it randomly will drop that PPPoE connection and the internet goes down across the entire house and rebooting the router always fixes the issue. It is very annoying when it happens when I’m not home as my wife knows nothing about computers/networks and is unable to reboot the device. Would be nice to have an option that if wan goes down for say a minute or so it would automatically reboot the router.
Thank you.
For pulling and replugging the power cord, you don't need a degree in computer science, mostly...
Auto Reboot on disconnect isn't useful because the device won't know WHY there was a disconnection and would stuck in a loop then, imho.
Sorry but I completely disagree with you, I believe it would be immensly useful (hense the request obviously). The device doesn’t need to know why the wan disconnected and so what if it does get into a loop, it’s not like rebooting itself causes any sort of degradation. It’s just going to reboot until it has a wan connection or I turn the device off. It doesn’t matter because without a wan connection it’s pretty useless anyway.
For my experience/use case it reconnects immediately after a single reboot (except one time when the fibre connection coming into house got damaged), so to automate that with a reboot when wan has been down for X amount of minutes would be invaluable for me. This issue is VERY frequent, nearly everyday I’m rebooting the device because the wan drops and sarcasm aside, your comment about not needing a degreee to power cycle the device is comically irrelavent. If the wan drops when no one is home then all my outbound services (ddns, port forwarding, vpn, etc.) go down and wont be up again until someone returns home, an autoreboot when wan drops would fix this.
This does not need to be the default behaviour, having the option behind an advanced section or similar for example would allow power users sush as myself to enable the option if desired. This instability of my home network has prevented me from upgrading to Flint 3 and if this feature request has no effect I may have to ditch the Flint 2 altogether and just use the ISP provided router. I do like my Flint router though so would be a shame to have to ditch it.
You could create a cronjob which will check if WAN is reachable and reboot if this isn't the case.
The main issue is something different. Try to adjust the WAN port speed from auto negotiation to 1 Gbps manually.
Usually there shouldn't be a reason to reboot.
If the isp has issues that would never be the reason of your network going fully down, and I'm talking about your local network, ipv6 may be a different story on certain configurations, but I'm sure you can use your own local ula prefix with a few changes.
If that does happen on ipv4, then there is an underlaying cause, mostly a configuration error somewhere in your network.
And I'm pretty confident it must be a layer 2 issue at the routing or stp.
Make sure you don't mix up the different versions or flavours of stp on your network switches and routers, this can do very weird things and indeed can render your router inaccessible and turn down a local network, I had this same exact thing happening but only at the odd experience when downloading very high, a other switch on a total different port started to sent traffic with the routers own src mac address, this stp mismatch created a loop rather than avoiding a loop, and the router blocked all local inbound traffic.
Make also sure that a different router doesn't use the same dhcp ranges or in the middle of a others range, because that will mess up broadcast and other things.
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If really want to detect and auto restart, please install the plugin watchcat
Perfect, thank you.
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