Re: D-Link DI-704P problem

From: WayneC (WC_at_nospam.net)
Date: 12/28/03 

Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 16:22:35 GMT

"NeoSadist" <neosad1st@charter.net> wrote in message
news:vuttpoc292oofc@corp.supernews.com...
> WayneC wrote:
>
> > I just got a DI-704P. It's connected to the net via cable modem. I have
> > SPI turned off as I have NIS on all my machines.
>
> Wow, sounds like a pretty secure setup.
>
> > I've been having problems
> > with laggy web page transfers (might have to refresh a page several
times
> > to get it to load) and dropped connections (Yahoo messenger will keep
> > loosing its connection every few minutes and have to connect again).
>
> I'd check your firewall config. For web browsers, allow them 80-83
tcp/udp,
> and for yahoo allow 5050 tcp and udp, incoming and outgoing. This is what
> I think it could be: NIS could be too strict for windows applications
right
> now. I'd try loosening stuff up a little, like yahoo for example: the
rule
> probably says outgoing connections, so you could change that to both
> incoming and outgoing (which is what it needs to be anyways). Just check
> over all your rules, looking at the incoming/outgoing and the tcp/udp.
>
> > I
> > also find that the connection to administer the router is laggy and
hangs
> > up quite often. When I suspend the modem connection and then restart it
I
> > have to restart the router. I removed the router and went back to my W2K
> > ICS box and all works ok. Are these problems normal for this router or
is
> > it a defective unit?
>
> Well, I can't rule that out. That could be a possibility.
>
> > BTW, I tried upgrading to the latest firmware but it
> > didn't help.
>
> Does it have a firewall on it? I'd check that too. If you have to,
> however, try switching out the router with a different one, or with a
> switch or hub, see if that changes anything. Also, you need to contact
the
> D-Link people about it.
>
> >
> > TIA

Thanks for the suggestions. I don't think its a setting on the NIS firewalls
'cause I've been running them in the same configuration before the router
and still running them the same way now after I disconnected the router and
all is well again. Without the router I'm hooked to a system configured for
ICS and connected to an 8 port switch. The unit does have a built in FW, the
only change I made was to stealth port 113 (I think it was 113) (have it
going to a blind address). I'll try removing that rule. I'll also try
getting hold of D-Link, just thought that the DI-704P might have been a
known POS or something.

Thanks again.

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