I try to log in a few times with the wrong password to the web portal on 192.168.0.1, and after 3 wrong passwords I eventually get a message telling me 

"This account is locked for 2 Hours as password entered in-correcty 20 times in the last 2 hours"

Firstly I havent done anything 20 times, does this mean someone else is trying to brute force my router ?

Secondly why on Earth am I locked out my own router ? Can't we have a setting that if the client logging in, is physically connected via Ethernet, then ignore incorrect passwords - the password incorrect count should not have any effect.

Also how do I get around this ? Can I reboot it - I don't want to revert to default settings obviously.