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Whow - that
is weird! I honestly never heard of anything like that. Even if you have a power outage or anything like that, the settings are stored in nvram and are non-volatile.
Did the subnet mask change from a /24 to a /16 maybe?
Maybe the firmware is faulty?
The advise/suggestion I would give to you, is to try a different firmware. I am a big fan of tomato - switched about 18 months ago and had never (and I mean never) any problems. The only time I had to take my router off power was when I moved houses. One of the main reasons for choosing tomato over any other of the open source firmwares (like dd-wrt, open wrt, etc.) was the fact that you can easily return to linksys firmware if you don't like it. I was also afraid I would damage my router with some of the "fancier" stuff. Now, after more than one year, I am really happy with it and would never think of returning to the stock firmware. It runs extremely stable, gives me the option to monitor my bandwidth usage, QoS finally works (compare to linksys), I can assign static IP addresses on the internal LAN, and I am able to use my routers as Ethernet bridges.
But take a look
here (some screenshots are
here) and decide for yourself (Make sure your router is supported!)
I would be very interested to see the result of this thread. Let me know what you think!
Dante
