[NTLUG:Discuss] What happened to Linksys?? BEFSR81v3 is junk

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>As some know, my BEFSR41 4port Linksys went out (apparently).
>It's diag light was on and never would go off (more later on that).

This is exactly what happened to my 1st Linksys router.  I don't know the
model number, but it was the 4 port version.  It lasted right at about a
year and a half.  I was happy with it, so I bought another one and it
lasted all of a year.  I don't know what Linksys has against me, but I'm
done with them.  The first one went into permanent diagnostic mode, so
Linksys told me when I called them...and it won't come out of it and there
is no way to force it out.  The second one had the WAN port go dead.  The
LAN portion of it still works, so I'm using it as a switched hub.  So,
you're right Chris, it's done.


>Now... back to that red light issue.  Seems that I'm not the
>only one who's BEFSR41 went red light.  I smell a remote
>exploit against the BEFSR41.. shame it actually kills the unit
>for good.  This is of course sheer speculation.  Just odd
>that so many are reporting the same problem.

It would be interesting to find out if that's the problem, although I doubt
we will ever really know.

>For now, I've enabled the SUSE firewall and am going direct
>(which works flawlessly of course!!).  I may setup a dedicated
>Linux box as my router, but it's a waste of equipment IMHO.

This is what I've done.  I had an old P-120 Compaq sitting around doing
nothing else, was the first Pentium class computer I ever bought and it
wasn't being used for anything, so I wiped it and installed Smoothwall on
it.  I'm thinking about installing Linux on another computer I have and
starting to play with IP tables and chains.

L. Wayne Dahl
Fiber Network Technician
FTTP Fiber Solutions Center

P.S.  If this looks funky, it's because I'm composing this on Lotus Notes
at work.  I have no idea what it will look like on the list...guess I'll
see soon.  :)