Hello,
Few days ago I’ve got new RB951G-2HnD. For a short while (less than one hour), after changing configuration a bit (SSID, WPA etc) it did work as expected, but then it started to behave quite strange:
- randomly it kicks me off webfig (I see login screen) when doing nothing
- reboots at irregular intervals - it could be 5 minutes or 20, even when there is no traffic and no WLAN connections
- sometimes it doesn’t come up after power cycling (needs 2 or 3 cycles to recover)
- sometimes, while in webfig, I couldn’t see any values in configuration - empty IP addresses and other values, while navigation is possible, shortly after that connection is gone
- it simply stops responding, either over WLAN or ethernet
- connected workstations can communicate but attempt to use webfig or ssh leads to reboot
I’ve tried default configuration only (using reset button) - it didn’t help, it still behaves oddly, even whet it is doing nothing (no WLAN connections, no traffic on ethernet - just idling system).
One thing which looks not normal to me - when I check “Resources”, value of “Total Sector Writes” is always reset after reboot or power cycle.
Another model which I use (751U-2HnD) works almost flawlessly, at least, no reboots or lost connectivity, with or without WLAN, so I doubt that this is a software related issue.
My question is - does it look like faulty hardware or problem might be somewhere else?
Thank you!
UPDATE: It seems that netinstall solved all problems. Probably, the upgrade process from 5.24 to 5.25 introduced some problems, or it was initially damaged installation - but after netinstall (and restoring previous configuration) everything works as it should.