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My own Linksys router (I think it's a WRV200) occasionally starts to silently drop new connections until I disconnect and reconnect. If my browser has an http/2
by wtracy 10y ago
My own Linksys router (I think it's a WRV200) occasionally starts to silently drop new connections until I disconnect and reconnect. If my browser has an http/2 connection open, I can continue to browse that particular site, but when I navigate to another site, the browser times out. It seems to only affect one device at a time.
Curiously, the behavior became dramatically more frequent (from once every few months to several times a week) when I moved in with family, which meant plugging it into a different modem, and adding a bunch of Windows devices to the network.
(When I move back out, I'll probably leave this router behind and get myself something that runs Tomato.)
- userbinator 10y agoThat sounds like the NAT table has filled up. Incidentally, this is often the cause of problems with "routers" that people experience --- it's not the (IP) routing part that's giving trouble, as that's stateless and involves not much more than packet forwarding. Things like NAT do involve state, since the router has to assign a port mapping and keep track of (TCP) connection lifetimes. If connections aren't closed correctly or the router misses detecting them for whatever reason, the port mappings will stay in the table until they time out (which may take hours or more) or the "router" is rebooted. The problem becomes more frequent the more devices there are on the network which are making connections.