Well
I'm glad to see these posts...
For months my speedtouch has been randomly rebooting... I've been
working with speedtouch/thomson support folks to diagnose and last week
I had some symptoms that the iplayer might of been doing it.
Heres what happens for me... basically my 608WL can handle 2048 simultaneous connections.
If
I login to the speedtouch via telnet, and run "connection stats" I'll
see that the # of connections spikes... I'll hover at 1000-1500 on a
normal day.. but prior to crashing this will shoot to 2048 in a few
seconds. Then the speedtouch cant handle it and crashes.
Then the router comes back up.. DSL connects.. and a few seconds later
it crashes out again, as all of the ports have again been used up by
whatever causes the crash.
I have to say I've not been able to confirm its the iplayer, as my own
seperate tests using iplayer Flash have failed to re-produce. My
etherreal traces last week showed a user was watching some bbc stuff at
that time, however thats not true for prior traces...
I've found one way of reducing the issue, is to create firewall rules
with a deny-all policy. basically start with the initial deny-all
default policy, then add in all the rules you want for day-to-day. Save
this. Then, add an allow-all rule at the top, disabled by default. Save
again, then enable it. What happens here, is that the normal day to
day ops work as normal, but if the ST reboots, then when it comes back
up, it has a "defend first" approach. I found that this kept it from
rolling reboots.
I'll forward this topic url to the guys at speedtouch.