[CentOS] OT: Linksys router misbehaviour

[Mauricio Tavares]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard at alice.it> wrote:
> I'm running a Linksys WRT54GL router from my CentOS-7 home server.
> Every now and then (maybe once every 2 days) the router's WiFi cuts out,
> and I've found no way to solve this except to disconnect the power
> from the router, wait 10 seconds and then re-connect.
> This always works.
> The router is running under dd-wrt.
>
> My question is - which makes it a tiny bit CentOS-related -
> does anyone with such a router know of a way
> to wake the router up in such a case through the computer?
>
      I think it depends on how it cuts out. I had an old ASUS router
running openwrt which had some issues with its wireless. My workaround
was to run a cronjob in router that would do

wifi up

every hour or so.

> I wouldn't have dared to ask this question here or anywhere
> until recently, as I assumed my ancient Linksys routers were obsolete.
> But I've been reading posts recently saying that
> there hasn't really been a Linux router to replace the WRT54GL,
> and in particular Linksys's recent 11n replacement
> is not as good as the old model in many ways.
>
> Anyway, if anyone has an answer to my query I should be very grateful.
>
> I have a couple of IP cameras working by WiFi on the computer,
> which I can look at remotely.
> I've connected one by TP-Link through the router,
> and this doesn't cut out, but it is not wholly satisfactory.
> But this shows that the router is alive and well,
> only its WiFi side is failing.
>
>
> --
> Timothy Murphy
> e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
> School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
>
>
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