Linksys/Cisco WRT54G V5 - tracroute bug

Recently had a Linksys WRT54G (v1.0) fail, so went to the closest store and purchased a replacement. My bad for not reading the press, as I brought home a v5 version.

With the latest available firmware, v1.00.6, I've discovered that the router doesn't properly support (of all things) traceroute - the first link returned in the trace is the destination address.

Here's a sample of what happens:

Trace

(66.161.11.20) 1 66.161.11.20 1ms 0ms 0ms TTL: 0 (webgod.linksys.com ok)

This is a UDP based trace, and it never proceeds past the above. A Windows generated (ICMP based) trace yields similar results:

Tracing route to webgod.linksys.com [66.161.11.20] over a maximum of 30 hops:

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Posted 5 years ago by DooDah in Wireless Networking

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