I thought resetting wireless routers was the norm (all my friends agreed it was a normal thing).
Trust me, hanging or rebooting is the best of the bad things your router can do to you.
I had one which would pass LAN->WAN packets without NAT translation if the endian-swapped destination address matched the LAN address block. Want to access X.1.168.192 on default settings? Sorry, not today.
And, of course, I didn't use 192.168.1.0/24 but 10.0.0.0/8. It took me weeks to figure out that the thing those few websites which suddenly stopped working had in common was IPs ending with .10 .
This was few years ago and since then I haven't bought a single router which wouldn't run OpenWRT or at least DD-WRT.
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Trust me, hanging or rebooting is the best of the bad things your router can do to you.
I had one which would pass LAN->WAN packets without NAT translation if the endian-swapped destination address matched the LAN address block. Want to access X.1.168.192 on default settings? Sorry, not today.
And, of course, I didn't use 192.168.1.0/24 but 10.0.0.0/8. It took me weeks to figure out that the thing those few websites which suddenly stopped working had in common was IPs ending with .10 .
This was few years ago and since then I haven't bought a single router which wouldn't run OpenWRT or at least DD-WRT.