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[–] 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

I feel like — like myself — none of the technical users of Lemmy would actually like this. For me, my router is a mini PC running Alpine Linux and it’s likely the modem (which is also my own) is having problems with the physical cable connection but if I were using an all-in-one shit box from the ISP there would be no way of knowing.

All this to say, if restarting the router “fixes” things there’s likely a deeper, more unsettling problem happening that’s not being diagnosed.

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  • All this to say, if restarting the router “fixes” things there’s likely a deeper, more unsettling problem happening that’s not being diagnosed.

    Odds are it's just some memory leak.
    Having to reboot every 2-3 month isn't too far fetched for these ISP modem/router.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    For me, it was openwrt bouncing the external interface during a DHCP renewal, even when the IP didn't change. They still haven't fixed that. I patch the stupid file every upgrade.

    But yeah, at least I could fix it!

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  • [–] 3 points 23 hours ago (1 child)

    I've actually got the exact same issue - how did you end up fixing it?

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  • [–] 1 point 13 hours ago (2 children)

    But yeah, at least I could fix it!

    Isn't openwrt open-source? If you fixed it on your machine, couldn't you submit a PR to their codebase?

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  • [–] 3 points 18 hours ago

    Came here to say just this. ISP box goes into a Debian board with 10 gigE uplink to my actual switching. I asked if I could replace the XGPON-ONT by SFP+s but Alas the sales agent was rather confused and basically said "why?!"...

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