Netgear Routers - obtaining lease

[Mike8]

I'm not sure whether this is a conincidence or not, but when O2 renew the lease, the router seems to loose connection and then reboots. Fortunately it always happens when Im not online. Is this the usual thing?
Mike

[Undecided adrian]

Sounds odd, can you reset the lease time to "forever" like on other routers?

[Mike8]

Although the netgear is kept alive as far as connection is concerned, lease can only be released or renewed. Saturday what's your take on it

[Saturday]

I've seen this discussed elsewhere. It appears to be a bug in the Netgear firmware.

The router should renew the lease every six hours (half way through the default IP lease), well in advance of the lease expiring. It isn't doing that so the net effect is that the connection (i.e. all active TCP connections) is dropped momentarily every 12 hours. Your router then rebooting is very odd though and I have no explanation for that. Do you mean reboot or resync?

The firmware bug seems to be impacting the way the router firewall handles the DHCP client's communication with O2's DHCP server.

I seem to recall there's a "fix" involving telneting into the router and issuing a set of commands. Though I'd assume that fix would only be valid until the router is next rebooted. If you're interested I'll see if I can find it.

[Mike8]

I mean resynching. Dont worry about researching it, I can live with it, today it was more noticable because the router was down about 3 hours, probably something to do with the Woking problem although Im at Bagshot. Anyway thanks for the reply. Mike