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Why Do We Have To Restart Routers?

Posted by kdawson on from the buildup-of-bogons dept.

jaypaulw writes "I've owned a WRT54G, some cheap D-Link home Wi-Fi/firewall/routers, and now an Apple Airport Extreme (100/10 ethernet ports). In the context of the discussion about the worst uses of Windows — installation in places where an embedded device is superior — I've gotten to wondering why it's necessary to reboot these devices so frequently, like every few days. It seems like routers, purpose-built with an embedded OS, should be the most stable devices on my network."

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  1. Because they are cheap by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Fast, Stable, Cheap - pick two.

  2. The problem is.. by Fjornir · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...the expectations of the user. Newsflash: when you buy cheap crap it is going to perform like cheap crap.

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  3. Re:The most likely reason by PitaBred · · Score: 5, Insightful

    DD-WRT on my WRT54GL, I've never had to reboot it for those issues. I even have a couple separate VLAN's set up, two DHCP pools on separate interfaces, etc. I've had uptimes of over 80 days before I tweaked something else on it that required me to reboot it.

    It's not the hardware... it's the generic crap software that they run on.

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  4. I hope this explains a few things. by Sillygates · · Score: 5, Insightful

    http://www.southparkzone.com/episodes/1206/Over-Logging.html

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