Linksys BEFSX41 Crash

NetDDE Messaging != MSN Messenger

Beside that, today at lot of these requests rather address formerly vulnerable RPC services like Task Scheduler.

Huh? I though you'd be using a router as a router. No need for firewalling for a home user environment.

Anyway, Linksys products are well known for having excellent alternative firmwares which are more reliable. As you already upgraded the firmware, the warranty is gone anyway.

Where did you find that version? The latest version listed at

is 1.52.10 (dated 5/10/06).

The BEFSX41 is very reliable in my experience. Have you tried contacting Linksys tech support?

The BEFSX41 is a tragic beast. It is a fabulous piece of hardware that never had firmware that really did it justice. I am going to suggest you try the v1.45.7 firmware revision. All the 1.5.x versions of the firmware have definite showstopper bugs in them & 1.45.7 seems to be the most trouble-free of all the firmware revisions available.

If you are wanting to upgrade to a better firewall how much are you willing to spend? To get a really good one you'll be spending at least $3-400 dollars.

As you are not able to see what data is stored on his home LAN & what he uses his computers at home for you're jumping to a conclusion not armed with all the facts. You may be right in your diagnosis, but you may not be.

Some Linksys products are well-known for having excellent alternative firmwares, but the BEFSX41 is not one of them.

Upgrading the firmware on a Linksys router with Linksys-branded versions is endorsed by the company and does not invalidate the warranty.

Thanks for the advice on the firmware. I was mistaken before, I was in fact using 1.52.10 (I had previously been using 1.50.18 and I tried to upgrade to Linksys's latest firmware to see if that would fix my problem - it did not).

So I reverted to the v1.45.7, Dec 30 2003 version. I could not find this version on the Linksys website - so I got it from here:

There is discussion of the most stable firmware version (from Jan

2003!) here:

They also suggest 1.45.7 (or 1.51.0 - with the new UI).

I will also send a note to Linksys tech support to see if they will address this issue. Version 1.52.10 has some serious problems - most commonly the http interface would crash and the firewall becomes unmanagable w/o power cycling to bring it back up.

For reference, the 1.52.10 download page is at:

http://www.l> On 24 Jul 2006 22:40:26 -0700, snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote: >

I sent this to Linksys:

I have been having my firewall crash frequently. I was using firmware

1.50.18. So I tired the latest version posted to your web site (1.52.10). Seems WORSE, not better. In particular, the web interface to manage the router crashes within just a few minutes of power-cycling. And occasionally I can't even PING the router anymore and also loose connectivity to the WAN.

I started a thread on comp.security.firewalls:

Where it was suggested that I revert to the 2003 versi> Thanks for the advice on the firmware. I was mistaken before, I was in

I hope this works for you. The BEFSX41 is a wonderful router when it works. I finally grew tired of the workarounds and moved on to a more reliable (and expensive!) router.

Linksys got back to me. They sugget that I change the MTU settings (Maximum Transmission Unit), starting at 1500 (for cable modem - 1492 for DSL), and then dropping it by 20 byes at a time down to minimum of 576. Yikes. Sounds like this would take me a couple of hours of fiddling with the model settings. How about I just buy an inexpensive modem that actually JUST WORKS.

They claim that perhaps I have a "hardware problem". Though loading the old firmware seems to be more stable than the newest version.

I had a pair of these, used for vpn remote to an office and had heat problems with both units. I gave up after a year (and after applying the latest flashes and switched to a pair of SMC units (no trouble since!) gr

I've also had heat problems with one.

-j

I never had trouble with overheating when I ran a BEFSX41. My big problem was during IM sessions & FTP file transfers they would be timed out as idle at odd times.

One day I got so ticked at the time-outs I snapped & ordered a Cisco router. Words cannot describe the level of stability I experience now. I forget it's there. It just works. The only time I fiddle with it is when I upgrade the IOS or SDM. I hate Cisco snobs and don't want to come off sounding like one, but it's hard to argue with a box that just works seamlessly with no hassle.