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I didn't consider that it might be only part of the functionality that was offline. DHCP being down might make sense. I don't remember if I checked that specifically on the endpoints or not. I tried to RDP to a couple of machines from the inside and when it didn't work started rebooting things. If I remember correctly, my phone didn't pick up wireless even though the access point was lit. I assumed it was just not hitting the internet but if it wasn't getting an address that could describe the result as well. I do know that I rebooted everything, tried again, and then went back to the 6100 a few minutes later and rebooted it last after everything else was back up since it was in a different part of the room. That would suggest that DHCP receive was okay but send was not.
If I set up an ovpn connection on the router itself instead of on a computer behind it, is the dchp offer going to come from the same instance as the lan connections? It is not, right? OVPN has a built in function that serves is own pool. Assuming it is separate and not tied to it then I should still be able to make a connection from outside and potentially be able to reboot if the same thing occurs again and it is only the dhcp function that isn't working but the rest of the unit is working. Am I overlooking anything with that approach?
@dennypage Good point. I'll try to plug in and see what I can find. I might just have to steal a small UPS from somewhere else or order one for this.
Thank you all for the feedback. Since this is a recurring issue I'll try to gather some more info for troubleshooting instead of just bringing things back online. Hopefully I can reproduce the issue but if not this will give me a few more things to look at.