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#1 User is offline   MSNwar 

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Posted 10 April 2004 - 11:27 AM

Just received this in an email from- ZDNet Tech Update Today - and it answers some questions about my own problems with some of my Linksys routers that I have been experiencing in the past six months. Added it to my personal Tech Archive.

My Linksys router/firewalls--old and new--have suffered a variety of Universal Plug-n-Play problems, port vulnerabilities and reliability issues. Apparently, a combination of engineering difficulties and design decisions are leaving Linksys customers exposed to potential security problems, including that new looming threat to all Internet users--the mini Distributed Denial of Service attack.

Full article:
Security issues move Linksys routers off the short list By David Berlind
http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/sto...s_and_DDoS.html


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Posted 10 April 2004 - 07:16 PM

I have a linksys router and ive never had any problems. Port forwarding has always worked fine for me. His article is rubbish:

1: He's complaining that his 4 YEAR OLD router isn't working right
2: Rather than taking responsibility that he has no idea what he's doing, he blames the firmware.
3: He quotes steve gibson, the biggest loser on the internet.

Just ignore the article.

-gosh

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Posted 10 April 2004 - 08:24 PM

gosh, on Apr 10 2004, 08:16 PM, said:

Just ignore the article.

Done.
For anybody that's still interested, I've made a picture-based summary:
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