incidentnormal DD-WRT Novice
Joined: 24 Apr 2017 Posts: 2
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Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2017 12:41 Post subject: "Apply Settings" - What does it actually do? |
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This is a general question, as I imagine it's common across all DD-WRT builds and models, as it seems like a fundamental aspect of the implementation.
So on most modern routers, you can update most settings "on the fly" - i.e. you won't experience any interruption in service/connectivity to clients if you say, change a port forwarding value on the router.
On DD-WRT it seems like when you select "Apply Settings", it resets all router subsystems which causes (amongst other things) clients to disconnect/reconnect and so forth. Clicking "Save" obviously doesn't actually activate the changes you've made.
Is it common practice to aggregate all Saved changes until a point where a connectivity interruption is deemed OK and then "Apply Settings" then? Or is there another way to change settings on the router without causing all subsystems to restart?
Thanks,
D
[Note to mods: Apologies if this is actually not a "general" query after all, I don't know enough about the differences between builds to know whether this could be chipset/build specific behaviour or general behaviour across all versions, but I made my best guess] |
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