Re: Linksys BEFSX41 firewall/router & Linux?

From: Tom McCune (tom@DELETE_THISmccune.cc)
Date: 04/24/03


From: Tom McCune <tom@DELETE_THISmccune.cc>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 21:45:40 GMT

jbrock@panix.com (John Brock) wrote in news:b89kgn$16e$1@panix3.panix.com:

> From what I gather there should be no trouble using the Linksys
> BEFSX41 firewall/router with Linux or other non-MS OSes, since the
> interface is web based. Still, Linksys only claims compatibility
> with Windows, so I thought I would check and see if others were
> using it with Linux, and if there were any showstopping problems.

Although I haven't used Linux (multi-booting) in a while, it worked fine
for me, via my BEFSX41. That was with Mandrake 9. From what I've seen
posted, I think you only need Windows for its configuration.

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