[geeks] Home router/firewall (Linksys lockups)

[Bill Bradford]

On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 09:46:18AM -0500, Kevin wrote:
> Most Linksys routers (and even some dumb hubs) seem to "lock up"
> and have to be power cycled every so often.  I (as have
> others) have observed this behavior under various conditions with
> various pieces of Linksys hardware.
> Does this firmware fix those types of issues as well?

This is very un-like the other Linksys hardware.  

I've owned BEFSR11 and BEFSR41 "routers", and they were pieces of crap 
that had to be rebooted at least daily.  The only time I reboot the WRT54G 
(which is actually an "embedded" ARM LINUX box) is when I upgrade the 
firmware.  I've never had an unplanned reboot or random lockup with it.

It's also one of the few "home routers" that doesn't just choke and die
when I throw a BitTorrent connection with 100+ other peers on it, at it -
cheaper NetGear/Dlink routers fill up their state tables and die; the
WRT54G and a Cisco PIX 501 are the only boxes I've seen that can handle it.

Bill

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bill bradford
houston, texas