Monday, October 01, 2012

Strange router problem


My router (Cisco WRT-320N) kept getting into what appeared to be a reboot loop. Resetting the router firmware and swapping out the router with my backup (same model and version of dd-wrt) didn't help.  Eventually I discovered that if I detached the ethernet cable from the cable modem, the router would stay up until I reattached it.  Since that didn't make any sense, I tried swapping out power supplies.  That fixed the problem.  I'm not sure why the power supply would only flake out when the router was attached to the cable modem.

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