On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Andrew S. Zbikowski <andyzib at gmail.com> wrote:
> I had some issues with a specific release of DD-WRT (sorry don't
> recall which) where my WRT54GL would just start getting slower and
> slower until it eventually just stopped working and needed to be hard
> reset. The issue occurred on multiple WRT54GL routers, so it wasn't
> hardware. I switch to Tomato and the problem went away.

Sounds like you ran the network stack out of available connections.
I've seen this happen on commercial gear when a host decides to run
wild (either an overzealous P2P user or a worm).  It's easy to point
at the router and say "oh that must be it" but in fact it's a network
host that's stealing TCP connections faster than the router can
release them.

I'm glad that a different software rev has fixed it for you.  You
might also want to check your environment and make sure you don't have
a host running cowboy on your network.

Brian