On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 01:19:30AM +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote: > You forgot to mention "sometimes it'll stay up for as long as several hours > before crashing/locking up". I guess this is a security feature, if someone > breaks in they'll only be able to use it for a short time before it locks up > or crashes. > > Peter (who doesn't own one, but has heard horror stories from owners).
Yes, the stock Cisco/Linksys firmware is plain horrible (especially stability on high P2P load), and has a nasty remote admin security hole (prime candidate for a firmware worm, given that the hole is trivial to exploit, Linux firmware build environments are aplenty, megaunits have been sold, and most users aren't security-literate). The first thing to do before even putting it on the network is to reflash it, with Sveasoft's firmware, or one of the 2-3 alternatives. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net
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