Linksys routers have a nasty flaw: they keep track of all connections for days. So if you're using something that has a lot of connections, such as p2p or freenet, it bonks fairly quickly. You might want to try looking for an alternative open-source firmware for it that fixes the problem.
On 4/29/06, vinyl1 <vinyl1 at earthlink.net> wrote: > > I am trying to find a way to get .5 to work properly before trying .7. > > My home network has 4 machines, using Suse Linux 10 and Windows 2K. I > have installed Freenet .5 on a Win2K machine. > > I am able to access the internet from the other machines at the time I > start Freenet. However, after Freenet runs for a few hours, the other > machines lose connectivity. On the Freenet machine, I have about 50-100 > connections. When I stop Freenet, the other machines usually don't work at > all, or only work with a few IPs. When I turn off the Freenet machine and > reboot the others, they don't DHCP properly and don't get a valid subnet > address. > > My connection is a cable modem into an old Linksys router, a 4-port > befsr41 from the year 2000. > > The only solution is to unplug the cable modem from the router, turn the > router off, wait for the cable modem to reset itself, and then restart > everything. > > I seem to recall something about this from previous discussions - some > routers can't handle that many connections - so I think the router is at > fault. I couldn't find anything searching through archived posts; is > anyone familiar with this problem? Would a more modern router be the > cure? Some guy at work gave me this one three years ago because it was > obsolete, but it had performed OK until it encountered Freenet. > > > _______________________________________________ > Support mailing list > Support at freenetproject.org > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support > Unsubscribe at > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support > Or mailto:support-request at freenetproject.org?subject=unsubscribe > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/support/attachments/20060429/bdf325b2/attachment.html>
