Carl Lowenstein wrote:
On Feb 9, 2008 8:42 PM, phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi
The problem is somewhere in the router. Everything works fine when
I go directly from the cable modem to the computer, so I think I'm
just going to get a new router.
My current router is a NETGEAR RP614 v3. It has to be 4 or 5 years
old. I have always needed to go in and do portforwarding for things
like bittorrent and sometimes POP and SMTP. (I never have to do
that with the WinXP computer.)
I find that hard to believe, since the router doesn't know what kind
of operating system you are running. Resetting the DHCP connection
is an equally trivial operation on both Windows and Linux. But the
exact thing you have to do is different.
Not exactly true. Some routers respond to UPNP (Universal Plug and Play,
a gaping security hole) which Windows machines use to set up routers.
This may be a case of the router set up to use UPNP and Linux not
knowing how to abuse it.
Gus
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