Re: Linksys BEFSX41 firewall router: Problem with its 1.45.3 firmware

From: Father Merrin (fm_at_provider.com)
Date: 01/18/04 

Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 18:58:50 GMT

I have always had problems while upgrading to the Linksys latest firmware
for every fix they make, they break two others. I have
upgraded/downloaded at least a dozen times, the best firmware release I
have used so far is version 1.43, released on Sep 04 2002. Without a
doubt it is the only firmware they successfully stealths all ports at
www.pcflank.com and www.grc.com (shieldsup).

Good Luck!
Father Merrin

Christopher Yeung <chris.yeung@cantab.net> wrote in
news:4009eccd$1@news.starhub.net.sg:

> I wonder whether other people have experienced similar problems with
> Linksys' latest firmware 1.45.3 for its BEFSX41 firewall router.
>
> When my BEFSX41 was running with firmware 1.44, I didn't experience
> this problem. But since I upgraded the firmware to 1.45.3 in October,
> I realised problems occurred when accessing web urls with queries
> (those urls with a '?' and parameters, e.g.
> http://www.linksys.com/firmware.asp?fwid=172). Such queries often
> return with webpages that "contain no data". Clicking refresh button
> on the browser wouldn't help either. The problem applies to many sites
> (but not all of them).
>
> I did several tests to narrow them the problem. When I access those
> web sites/pages directly (i.e., without proxy or VPN), I get the
> problem with BEFSX41. But when I access those same web sites/pages
> through a VPN tunnel, everything went fine and I didn't have any
> problem. And when I connect my PC directly to the cable modem without
> BEFSX41, everything went fine as well. When I tried to access the same
> site using the same URL, it returned with the problem "the page
> contains no data".
>
> I also followed some suggestions from the newsgroup to clean up the
> content-filtering options. I even did a reset to factory defaults to
> make sure it wasn't due to some mis-configuration problems. But the
> problem persisted.
>
> I seriously suspect there's a bug with the firmware 1.45.3, just want
> to confirm with people on this newsgroup before reporting a problem to
> Linksys.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>