I have been using the latest firmware. Re bridge mode... assuming that term isn't meant to mean cascaded routers-two subnets. What I'm using the E1200 for is an access point - not a client bridge. (Irrelevant, but the E1200 firmware has no bridge mode). So the WAN port wouldn't be used - as it's an AP, not a router. And I don't want it to NAT again, have to have two subnet numbers, deal with double port forwarding and other router functions that an AP wouldn't do.
I speculated that the hang after two weeks - which reoccurs predictably- was due to a memory leak because it was retrying DHCP on the WAN port. So I changed the WAN port to a static in a different network number. No affect. I then speculated that it was failing its attempts to get time via NTP. I think I disabled that.
I've used other routers as an AP and didn't have this issue.
Well, I'll just try to remember to reboot it every week or so. The root issue is I'm too cheap to pay a premium for a product claiming real AP mode firmware. Been there, done that with use of DD-WRT for AP mode- long ago; don't want to go that road again.
Which E1200 version do you have? V1? V2? V2.2?
I know version 2 and 2.2 support bridge mode. If you look at the V1 release notes, it says that V1 also supports bridge mode starting with firmware 1.0.02 Build 5. Maybe that's just a mistake in their release notes? Go to "Internet Connection Type" and see if you have bridge mode.
The E2500 supports bridge mode too. Maybe thiggins can confirm which versions of E1200 support bridge mode.
Anyway, here's the instructions for configuring a linksys router for bridge mode. Most of their E series and EA series support bridge mode (but not all).
http://kb.linksys.com/Linksys/GetAr...tting_up_the_Linksys_E4200_in_bridge_mode.xml
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Cisco Consumer Products LLC
Product: Linksys E1200, Wireless-N Router
Classification: Firmware Release History
Release Date: Mar 16, 2012
Last Firmware Version: 1.0.03
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Note: This firmware is only compatible with hardware version 1 (v1), but not with hardware version 2 (v2).
Firmware 1.0.03 (build 4)
- Added control to the browser-based GUI, so that a user can manually enable/disable Wi-Fi Protected Setup.
- Allow value of 255 in the 4th octet of L2TP server IP address.
Firmware 1.0.02 (build 5)
- Added bridge mode support
- Added Arabic, Polish, Russian and Turkish support in the browser-based GUI
- Removed Danish support in the browser-based GUI
- Some of the help contents in the browser-based GUI have been moved from the firmware to Cisco Consumer Products� e-support web site
- Fixed various minor issues
Firmware 1.0.00 (build 11)
- Initial release
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