has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? in Linksys

has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? in Linksys http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r15321007 en Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:20:14 EDT Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:20:14 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16164884 anon : Xenophex-
I'm having the same type of problem with my BEFSX41 (LinkSys BEFCMU10 rev 2 Cable Modem to BEFSX41 rev 1.1 fw1.52.10 then DMZ Port - My main gaming machine - port 1 to a LinkSys EZXS16 (16 Port 10/100 Switch) - Misc devices off of the switch, including 2 other machines (Intel NICs), a network printer, and a WAP54G (LinkSys Wireless Access Point) fw 3.04 etc..). This is my current config, which is most recent, about 4 days old... I've tried several different combinations of configs to try and minimize the problem.. even bringing the environment down to just the router and two PCs (including new CAT5 cables as well).
I've had the below problem for some time now, including firmware 1.52.10, 1.52.9, the previous 1.51.0 beta and I believe 1.45.7.. Here's the issue:
Fresh restart/config - nothing special in the router config - mostly defaults except the LAN IP and Admin password... PC1 boots up, either DHCP or Static (doesn't seem to make a difference) no problems.. I can usually work without issue for an extended period of time... However, 9 times out of 10, as soon as a second device comes on-line, IE: PC2 - The router goes out the window. LAN connectivity is fine... WAN (Internet) connectivity is gone... In most cases, I have to completely down the environment and start over... The one time when the second PC doesn't bring down the WAN connectivity, it's usually b/c I'm sitting there checking e-mail over and over to try and keep the "line active" during post of the other device... however, anywhere from 5secs to 10mins after the second device is on-line, the WAN connectivity is lost... forces a complete reboot of the entire environment...
I've been using WallWatcher to watch the logs etc, and see nothing to indicated any problems. I've seen other forums suggesting setting the MTU in the router, tried this, didn't work. Other forums suggest disabling UPnP via the router, same results. I've even disable the Firewall settings on the router as well as the PC... same results.
Let me express, this is not your typical "router lock-up" issue that I've experienced in the past... normally a release/renew on the router fixes that... I can say, it seems as though that problem has been minimized, however, this greater problem is becoming more and more of a hassle...
Just so everyone's aware, I've been involved with PCs for almost 20yrs now. I work as an NT Administrator for a very large company.. this is what I do.. The reason I say this, I want you to know, I'm not some dumb ass whose clicking buttons, I can read and understand technical terms/logs and I have very good troubleshooting skills. I've searched on google/groups for a few days now with no satisfying results.. hence my post here... I'm not trying to be rude by any means...
Anyone have any ideas? Suggestions? Want to see the logs? Want me to try something? Let me know, this is a very annoying problem that I'd like to get fixed ASAP.
Thanks in advance...
-DA]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16164884 Wed, 24 May 2006 19:18:32 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16140858 Flogator : Check the thread below where we discuss specifics of 1.52.10.

»BEFSX41 Firmware 1.52.10 - Post your findings here]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16140858 Sun, 21 May 2006 08:40:20 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16134879 Darnest : Don't know if any one else has used it But I just upgraded to 1.52.10. Seems stable so far, went on with no issues and according to the read me says it has fixes for stability and gaming; nothing specific though. Just curious if there is any detail on what this fixes...]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16134879 Sat, 20 May 2006 02:38:28 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16009549 andyross : Both are 'Made in China'. Oddly, the older (last summer) one has a higher serial number than the new one.

Due to some problems with 1.52.9, I am now trying out 1.51.0. Now it takes about the same amount of time to boot up.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16009549 Mon, 01 May 2006 16:35:42 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16006874 Flogator : Under the router, there is a statement where the router was made. Even if both are V2, are these made at the same place (i.e. Made in Taiwan vs Made in China)? If different, which one boots up faster? My guess is that the V2 are also made in two different location such as the V1.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16006874 Mon, 01 May 2006 10:08:52 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16001531 andyross : I recently bought a second BEFSX41, mainly to test out different firmware as the first one is owned by the company I work for. Both are otherwise identical v2's.

The original has the standard 1.50.18 firmware. I'm testing out the latest 1.52.9 on the new one. One thing I noticed is that the new router boots up nearly twice as fast as the old. Has anybody else noticed it, or is the new router simply faster for some reason? Even the power light blinking during bootup seems a bit faster.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16001531 Sun, 30 Apr 2006 11:15:45 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15923177 anon : Excellent! It appears that version 1.45.7 has solved the disconnect problem (I hope). The router hasn't been under any sort of serious load, but IRC has been running with a channel open for about four and a half hours without any issues.

Looks like I'll be sticking to this version :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15923177 Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:15:27 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15921105 anon : OK,

I have tried the 1.51.00 firmware and was disappointed to see that I recieved 4-5 IRC disconnects after leaving a channel idle during the day. I've just flashed to 1.45.7 as per Flogator's recommendation and hopefully this will fix the problem :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15921105 Tue, 18 Apr 2006 12:57:29 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15919250 swapshop1 : Mine doesn't reset due to load, i can download from news groups at full speed and use MSN, but my time out will occur after not receiving a message after a few minutes. the same as when not downloading. With 1.45.7 this is no longer a problem.

The only solution with the newer fw was to keep sending msn messages to keep msn from disconnecting]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15919250 Tue, 18 Apr 2006 06:57:47 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15918684 Dustyn : Yes. :)
Courtesy of Flogator

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»[wired] BEFSX41 firmware 1.45.7]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15918684 Tue, 18 Apr 2006 01:26:39 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15917764 anon : I have the -exact- same problem as you hitman012. IM/IRC disconnects seem related to load on the router.

That said, does anyone have a Download link for 1.45.7? ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15917764 Mon, 17 Apr 2006 22:36:08 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15910812 anon : This is certainly a good firmware, and a definite improvement on the one that shipped with my FSX41. I'm not really using any advanced features but UPnP; interestingly, I have had no issues with soft resets due to the apparent memory leak despite the UPnP service being enabled in XP.

There is one irritating problem, however: disconnects. I have noticed that when the router is under moderate to heavy load, IRC and MSN both disconnect. In IRC, I recieve a "Software caused connection abort" and MSN simply times out and I am signed off. I first noticed this when using BitTorrent to obtain a Linux ISO... it's something that's haunted me since my old FSR41.

Is there any fix or firmware version that helps with this problem? I'm considering flashing to 1.51.00 if that's not affected.

Cheers,
hitman012]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15910812 Sun, 16 Apr 2006 21:24:40 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15886454 anon : I have a WRT54G wireless router behind port 4 extending wireless capabilities on a different subnet. Long URL's cause 1.45.7 to lockup the router. Need to release and renew or reboot to fix.
Updated to 1.52.9 and long URL's don't freeze the router, but every now and then it locks. Need to release and renew or reboot to fix. I've even disabled the firewall and let it run over night. When I come on in the morning I can't access the internet.

When I check IPCONFIG via CMD prompt I'm lacking a gateway.
I didn't have as many issues when the WRT54G wasn't around. Thinking about just running off of it, but I will be short ports.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15886454 Thu, 13 Apr 2006 00:34:48 EDT Re: Linksys BEFSX41 VPN FTP and port forwarding http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15878606 ylen131 : using latest firmware and no problem at all. I have upnp disable, haven't notice the warm restarts but will keep an eye on it]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15878606 Tue, 11 Apr 2006 22:46:15 EDT Re: Linksys BEFSX41 VPN FTP and port forwarding http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15862925 anon : I've got more or less the same problem. The outside can't connect to ports 25 and 80 after a couple of hours with firmware 1.52.9. This problem doesn't exist with firmware 1.45.7. I do want to use the new firmware because of the QoS features.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15862925 Sun, 09 Apr 2006 18:16:01 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15862908 SigmaSix : Lets hope there is a fast turn around time for a new firmware with this issues fixed.
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I would like to be able to put SP2 on my pcs but due to this situation I have to stick with SP1 on all of them.

At some point soon Micro$oft will withdraw updates for users not running SP2 so, consequently, I'm quite keen also to solve this.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15855452 Sat, 08 Apr 2006 13:04:19 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15853703 Dustyn : This is exactly what I am talking about peterjbrock

. I'm glad to see I am not the only one experiencing this bizarre issue with XP UPnP. Hopefully the information you provided to Linksys will be heard and released as a new firmware update! :)
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I just wanted to say thank you to everyone contributing here. I have been scratching my head over some issues we've been having here in our small office network with our old Linksys BEFSX41 for a month now and finally after reading through all of these posts and taking the advice here about ditching the latest version of the released firmware for one of the known stable versions the memory leak and rebooting every 1.5 hours has gone away.

Rob L]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15839997 Thu, 06 Apr 2006 09:12:06 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15839504 peterjbrock : I have found that with the latest firmware that I get regular warm-restarts and complete hangs if I have UPnP enabled in my Win XP-SP2 environment.

Also for some time I have reported to LinkSys that they are not providing all the details to the Win XP UPnP service about the Internet Gateway; as can be seen in the Internet Connection Status attachment. NOTE: I am now running firmware 1.51.00_hb as it is more stable with UPnP enabled. There still is a slow memory leak in the BEFSX41 and I have warm-restarts every 300+ hours (approx).

Internet Connection Status

]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15839504 Thu, 06 Apr 2006 08:52:05 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15839045 Dustyn : Another question...
How long will Linksys continue to support the BEFSX41 v2 units with new firmware releases?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15839045 Thu, 06 Apr 2006 01:50:04 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15831326 Dustyn : I have a small issue I'm wondering if others can help me out with? This new firmware seems pretty stable... but if you enable full UPnP and go into network connection in XPSP2, do you see your router appear/disappear from time to time? You would only see the icon if UPnP is enabled on your router. Sometimes all I see in network connections is my VIA Ethernet Controller.

Strange how the internet gateway is not always present even though I have internet access. A bug perhaps in UPnP?
When the icon DOES appear in network connections window, I can double click on it to bring up a duration of how long my router has been online.

I never had these issues with previous firmware versions. The internet gateway was ALWAYS there and always kept a recorded up-time.
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"You have no idea what I am capable of. People who have tried to cross me, have lived to regret it...~Michelle Stafford (Phyllis)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15831326 Wed, 05 Apr 2006 02:32:54 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15708308 Trooper : Thank you sir. Much appreciated. :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15708308 Fri, 17 Mar 2006 23:53:54 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15708270 d_l : Yes. At least 30 secs. is the recommended length of time. Afterwards, you can check router settings to see if they are truly back to factory defaults.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15708270 Fri, 17 Mar 2006 23:45:39 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15708251 Trooper : Thank you. By long reset, you mean push in the button in the back of the router for awhile correct?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15708251 Fri, 17 Mar 2006 23:41:40 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15708238 d_l : Use the standard best practices of no other ethernet connections to the SX41, but the flashing computer. Long reset to factory defaults before flashing. Only use IE with the GUI flash page, otherwise use the TFTP program. Long reset to factory defaults again after the flash.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15708238 Fri, 17 Mar 2006 23:37:31 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15708210 Trooper : Can someone point me in the right direction on how to downgrade my firmware from this newer version of firmware back to my trusty old 1.45.7?

Thank you.
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said by Flogator

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The router has some problems when the PCs behind the BEFSX41

have their DNS pointing to the router instead of the ISP DNS servers. It appears to me

that the BEFSX41 does not proxy DNS request properly. If your PC's DNS points to the

ISP DNS server, I am about to bet that you will not see these memory leaks.

I will be running more tests tonight and report more findings. Meanwhile, if any of you guys can confirm or contradict my theory, please post to this thread.

I can confirm your suspicion (at least WRT symptoms). I had upgraded to 1.52.9, and was noticing a lot of spontaneous reboots (sometimes several in an hour). Since all machines except my laptop have static IP addresses anyway, I put my IP's primary and secondary DNS IP's (taken from the router's status page) into all configurations, replacing the Router's address.

The reboots stopped cold. Zero. Zip. Nada. for about 24 hours. But the problem remained

that I want to be able to use the Router's DHCP as well for machines that come and go, and if the router handed out its own address as the DNS, the problem would return. So I went to the setup page and entered my ISP's (SBC) primary and secondary DNS IP's in the slots provided there. I fired up my laptop, which requested a an IP address from DHCP.

Ipconfig /all confirmed that it was given the 2 DNS IP addresses that I had entered on the setup page! So now I can use DHCP.

As of now I have gone 66 hours without a single spontaneous reboot.

Why the router insists on handing out (via DHCP) its own address and then doing the DNSRelay instead of just passing through the ISP's DNS'es I don't understand.
Jim

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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15703596 Fri, 17 Mar 2006 10:47:40 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15682562 whmwhm :

said by Flogator

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I am pretty much done with the trial and error testing on that firmware now. So I can let it settle for a month without touching it. So unless someone else report something, I'll be able to provide comments in a month ;).

Will your verdict be issued soon? I gave up on 1.52.9 because of constant AIM disconnects, but would still appreciate your analysis.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15682562 Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:39:55 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15655088 jschumann : I use Messenger 7.5 with this version of firmware....Video with voice works fine, but voice alone doesn't???? File transfer works.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15655088 Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:56:48 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15652738 Flogator : Would not matter. The bug resides on the fact that the BEFSX41 alters packets sent from your LAN to the MSN server :(. Forwarding ports will serve you no good.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15652738 Fri, 10 Mar 2006 00:03:49 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15650702 anon : Can I open up port forwarding for MSN ports to get this to work with the new firmware, or dosent that matter? ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15650702 Thu, 09 Mar 2006 19:02:16 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15647076 Flogator : As of yet, there is no fix for MSN voice/video/file sharing. If you need that, you must roll back to one of the most stable BEFSX41 firmware which do support that properly. You can find them at the link below:

»[wired] Recap: BEFSX41 Stable Firmware]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15647076 Thu, 09 Mar 2006 10:07:35 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15646019 anon : So am I correct in that there is no fix for getting MSN voice to work using 1.52.9? I too have updated to this version and my MSN voice no longer works.

Where do I find old firmware versions as I want to go back to 1.50.x?

Thanks]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15646019 Thu, 09 Mar 2006 02:40:44 EDT Re: Linksys BEFSX41 VPN FTP and port forwarding http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15635579 redblkjck : You just need 1723 forwarded to the internal IP and under the Security/VPN tab enable the pass-throughs options, PPTP, IPSec...]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15635579 Tue, 07 Mar 2006 19:14:48 EDT Re: Linksys BEFSX41 VPN FTP and port forwarding http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15631905 jpingle : To get PPTP to work you'll have to forward protocol 47 (GRE) not port 47. I'm not sure if these Linksys boxes have a mechanism to do that. You'd probably have to put the server as the DMZ host and expose it to the world to get it to work.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15631905 Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:38:06 EDT Linksys BEFSX41 VPN FTP and port forwarding http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15617423 ngam10 : I am befuddled and in pain. Have a static IP service from RCN (cable provider). Have about 7 PCs connected to the world through this router. Can access the internet no problems at all.

However, nobody from outside can get in. We run a Windows 2000 server VPN. Have done port forwarding 47 and 1723 and enabled PPTP passthrough. Have been struggling for 5 days.

The logs show an incoming request but nothing afterwards.

This VPN works fine on AT&T SDSL connection with Symantec Gateway appliance (our low bandwidth primary internet solution which we are trying to move away from as RCN connection has 6 times more incoming bandwidth).

Thx in advance for your help.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15617423 Sun, 05 Mar 2006 13:31:18 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15608755 anon : Can anyone share the secret to getting ident (113) forwarded for IRC to work with this new firmware? I just jumped from an older version (Sep 2003) and am having a little trouble.

Thanks]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15608755 Sat, 04 Mar 2006 01:47:57 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15603625 THE_MICK : I would like to add to the list of features that no longer work in the latest firmware, 1.52.9. In the UPnP forwarding menu, version 1.45.7 had the ability to move a WAN incoming request on a specific port, to the LAN IP on a DIFFERENT port. In all of the latest firmware from Linksys, this feature no longer works. It will only accept a WAN request, and direct it to a LAN IP on the SAME port. This feature, now missing, made the Linksys routers somewhat unique, with this ability, and was the main reason I chose Linksys routers, of which I have 10 in use. Because of this, I will continue to use 1.45.7.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15603625 Fri, 03 Mar 2006 12:17:59 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15561476 Flogator : The BEFSX41 support SNMP. However, you must enabled the feature as it comes disabled by default. To enable SNMP, simply browse in the web GUI to the "Administration" tab and "Management" sub-tab. There, simply ensure that "SNMP" is enabled. That should do the trick ;).]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15561476 Sat, 25 Feb 2006 20:18:06 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15555828 afidel : Well I found a bug in 1.52.9 (not sure if it exists in other firmware versions). If you have an incoming VPN configured and the connecting end is not able to successfully able to negotiate the tunnel then the receiving end drops about 60% of traffic while the upload is 60% utilized! Someone can DOS you simply by trying to negotiate a VPN tunnel repeatedly. I found this out because updating from 1.51.0 to 1.52.9 via the web interface removed my PSK and the other end kept trying to renegotiate the tunnel causing my VoIP to be much worse than it was before. Thank god for WallWatcher or I wouldn't have figured out why the thing was dropping so much traffic. Now I just have to write down the PSK next time I'm at the other end =)After fixing this the QoS seems to have actually helped VoIP performance under moderate load.

Btw does anyone know what SNMP info to use in WallWatcher to get the bandwidth utilization info, the setup says that the BEFSX should do SNMP bandwidth but the default OID doesn't work.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15555828 Fri, 24 Feb 2006 22:47:39 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15550137 jefe : I'd posted early that 1.52.9 seemed to work well for me except for periodic AIM disconnects and reconnects. At the time I wasn't convinced that those disconnects were the fault of the BEFSX-41. Now I'm convinced they weren't because it's stopped happening.

luvr...don't know what to make of your IP address issue. I'm not seeing that here. IP's (when I use DHCP devices)are assigned consecutively starting with .x.100.

denb45...don't know what to make of your speed issue either. My cable connection is 15 mb/s down. I get ~13.8 mb with or without the firewall/SPI turned on. I had a 30 mb/s connection for a few weeks. In that case I had to turn off the firewall to max out download speed, but I was still getting ~18 mb/s with the firewall turned on.

swapshop1...I'm using a several year old BEFSX-41 too. Been pretty much stable as a rock for me. I don't do anything particularly complicated with it. No VPN, etc. But it works for what I need...a basic SOHO LAN.

I am mostly using the default settings. I've changed the password, and the subnet to .0 instead of .1, I've got a couple of ports forwarded, and that's it. It just works.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15550137 Fri, 24 Feb 2006 09:30:03 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15545520 anon : I loaded it a couple of days ago. It is stable, and appears to be fine. I did notice it no longer goes in consecutive order to dish out IP addresses, though. Very strange. Everything works fine.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15545520 Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:24:25 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15513641 denb45 :

said by swapshop1

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in addition to my previous, i'm on cable. For those who are able to use this new fw, what settings are you using and are any of you on cable?

In the logs for memory usage what actually is wt? All i know is that the free memory decreases as wt increases.

I use 8MB Cable, I have the Firewall on the router turned-off, with it on I only get 6MB Speeds other than that, it works, I haven't had a single disconnect as of yet
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In the logs for memory usage what actually is wt? All i know is that the free memory decreases as wt increases.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15512977 Sun, 19 Feb 2006 16:21:36 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15493958 mpeters : Just a short rant.

I just dusted off a spare BEFSX41 and checked the firmware.
I was astonished to discover it reported version 1.44.3 dated Dec 24, 2002.

So the BEFSX41 has been in the marketplace at least 3 years and Linksys is still issuing buggy firmware ?!?

I've contacted Linksys tech support numerous times over the years, and I always get the same answer: "we're not aware of any problems...".

What's wrong with this picture?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15493958 Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:26:00 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15490757 dpuraty : I too am having problems with a new BEFSX41 with the latest firmware. I connect from work to home with Remote Desktop, and after a few minutes of inactivity it kicks me off and logs and "invalid TCP packet received, dropping packet" error in the incoming log. The packet dropped is a valid packet from my work IP to my home IP. Tech support emailed me back that they don't have any reports of this problem. Anyone know of this Remote Desktop problem?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15490757 Thu, 16 Feb 2006 13:22:22 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15489720 Jan Janowski : In the past weeks (V1.52.9) I've noticed a few dropped TCP packets per evening.... Nothing excessive like earlier V1.5x firmware....
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Did nothing fancy other than set up two tunnels.
Enabled logging (to monitor vpn SA negotiations).

Immediately started noticing strange behaviour such as random
rebooting and loss of connectivity to embedded web interface.

Probably memory leak problems.

How many times do they have to go back to the drawing board
until they get it right?

Why don't they just GPL the code, and let some real engineers sink their teeth into it?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15488409 Thu, 16 Feb 2006 06:08:16 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15486456 swapshop1 : From defaults:
Memory leak confirmed with 1.52.6 and 1.52.9 using UPNP and logs on.

No leak with 1.52.01hb or 1.45.7

DNS servers set to 194.168.8.100 and 194.168.4.100]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15486456 Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:42:32 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15465285 Flogator : Actually, I had follow up this issue with Linksys. With the experiment I run, I haven't yet crossed the 30 days period with the router. However, according to Linksys, this has now being fixed. If your WAN IP does not change for more than 28 days, it is supposed to update automatically. But that's not me seeing it, that's statement from Linksys ;). I am pretty much done with the trial and error testing on that firmware now. So I can let it settle for a month without touching it. So unless someone else report something, I'll be able to provide comments in a month ;).]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15465285 Mon, 13 Feb 2006 09:56:13 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15463397 ttim34 : You mean over and above the normal Dynamic IP change notification?.....I don't think so. never seen that event logged B4. Does DynDNS require at least one update per so many days of up time?
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I'm also toying with the idea of trying a new router..maybe Linksys...maybe another brand...just as an experiment. My BEFSX-41 is a couple of years old and routers are cheap enough these days to play around with.

My wife says we got a whole lot of snow back home. I'm far enough south at work where it never snows but it's too chilly for the tourists.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15460579 Sun, 12 Feb 2006 16:12:30 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15460064 steven424 : That's very interesting. Before upgrading to 1.52.9 I never experienced any AIM soft reconnects. After the upgrade, I was getting them in bursts of about 3-5 every 30 minutes.

I could have lived with those. It was the huge number of dropped TCP packets being logged (as observed in WallWatcher and also in the logs I collect on my Linux server) that had me concerned. I telecommute from home every day and solid connectivity is an essential requirement. I use Earthlink DSL, and I checked all the usual suspect settings, and everything seemed to be set correctly.

[OT] Get much snow out in Northport? We have about 8" in Brooklyn Heights [/OT]]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15460064 Sun, 12 Feb 2006 14:52:26 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15459392 jefe : I'm holed up in a hotel away from home right now Steve. But before I left the number of random disconnects seemed to have diminished. A lot.

Also, I have a typical wired broadband connection in this hotel. While not frequent, I do still see some AIM disconnect/reconnects.

I'm still not 100% convinced the BEFSX-41 is at fault. I think I'm going to let 1.52.9 ride for a while longer. If I revert, it will be to 1.45.7 and I'll report back.

--jeff]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15459392 Sun, 12 Feb 2006 13:09:22 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15459353 steven424 : I did the same, waited to read the reports of the early adopters before upgrading from 1.50.9 to 1.52.9. I can confirm that I experienced the same random AOL IM disconnects/reconnects with 1.52.9 you mentioned. AOL IM was rock solid in 1.50.9. Also, I saw a huge number of supposedly invalid TCP package drop log messages in 1.52.9 that were not there in 1.50.9. I've reverted back to 1.50.9 for the time being, until hopefully a fixed version is released.

I hope this helps,
--- Steve]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15459353 Sun, 12 Feb 2006 13:03:22 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15448129 Flogator : Binary is smaller because since the 1.51.xx firmware, Linksys is compressing the image. By taking a closer look at the binary content, you will find the gzip prefix. That's actually how we can find hidden pages and page content. We unzip the image and do a simple scan for HTML tags or file names. In firmware prior to those, the image was not compressed so you could actually scan it right away. Now you've got to decompress it first. See the bottom of the post below. You'll see the hidden pages and hidden content I catch using this technique.

»has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15448129 Fri, 10 Feb 2006 17:30:56 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15448077 Ravenheart : I wonder why the binary is less than half the size of those for 1.45.7 or 1.51.00 (it's about 720K).

Anyway, it's working well for me. I'm not asking for anything fancy of it.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15448077 Fri, 10 Feb 2006 17:23:06 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15443595 Innuendo : For those with IM disconnect troubles, when I used a BEFSX41 the work-around I used was to set my IM programs to use port 443 instead of the default port. I know ICQ lets one set a different port to connect through. Other IM clients may as well.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15443595 Fri, 10 Feb 2006 00:13:32 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15437021 jefe : Looking at Wallwatcher, I can't see a correlation that specific.

I see a couple of disconnects on a 5 minute interval, but others longer. Plus...I just had one in the middle of an IM chat...so it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the connection being idle.

I definitely think this particular issue is worse with 1.52.9 than it was in trusty old 1.45.7. I'm going to give it another day or to, see if someone has an answer, and if not, revert back to 1.45.7.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15437021 Thu, 09 Feb 2006 08:23:52 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15436171 anon : No, nothing to do with AIM, it disconnects all idle TCP connections. I use MSN and it disconnects me off of it too. I have determined that it disconnects after being left idle for EXACTLY five minutes.

Damn, I wish someone had a soloution for this]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15436171 Thu, 09 Feb 2006 00:55:33 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15434950 jefe :

said by JustStarting

:

Sounds similar to a problem I have had with Skype. Contacts keep coming and going as if they've left the net and then returned. The new firmware seems to have cured this, although it's really too soon to tell for sure.

Finally bit the bullet today and updated from v1.45.7 to 1.52.9.

I was always getting some random disconnects/reconnects with AIM but I think if anything, it's worse with the new firmware.

Of course, how do I tell if the problem is related to the BEFSX-41, much less a specific firmware version? The only good test would be to to bypass the router, which I'm not willing to do, or try a different brand/model. It could just be AOL's IM server(s).

FWIW, I have a Mac Mini on this LAN that we use for iChat video conferencing. iChat doesn't seem to suffer the disconnects that AIM does.

I hope the AIM disconnects are my worst problem. :D Other than that, so far, so good.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15434950 Wed, 08 Feb 2006 21:59:17 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15433634 denb45 : I just Bought this Router Today at BestBuy for 79.99 I replaced a RT41-BU Router for 49.99 with this one, I downloaded the BEFSX41_v1[1].52.9_code Bin File and so far, I haven't noticed any problems, on one of my other PC's that was left alone-online, did loose it's connection while it was Idel, but non of the other 2 PC's on the BEFSX41 V.2 did?
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said by jpingle :
Does anyone know if the new firmware still drops idle TCP connections after a few minutes?

This sound like what I have been reporting for a very long while and it doesn't seem to have anything to do wiht TS at all. I can duplicate the problem with internal shares.
Case in point:
QuickBooks running on PC1 accessing company files on PC2. After a few minutes of work, PuFF! QuickBooks blows up with file not found error of sorts. One second later, Network Connection Yellow bubble of hell pops up complaining about network device not found only to go away another second later with a fresh 10/100 connection and Quickbooks is again happy for another while until it happens again.

I got very sick and tired of this, not to mention a very outraged client blaming me for installing substandard equipment, so reflashed this one back to 1.52.3 and seems to've cleared the problem.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15428945 Wed, 08 Feb 2006 08:17:38 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15421837 JustStarting : Flogator,

Thanks! I've installed the firmware, and I'll let you know how things work out. I used the tftp program because I'd had problems with the browser technique, and all went fine. I used the BEFSX41_v1.52.9_code%2C0.bin file, since ostensibly it's for my V1 router.

Again, thanks very much.

JS]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15421837 Tue, 07 Feb 2006 10:38:45 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15421728 jpingle : Does anyone know if the new firmware still drops idle TCP connections after a few minutes?

I have a client that is having trouble maintaining terminal services connections with a BEFSX41, even with Terminal Services' keep-alive function turned on. They minimize and walk away for a few moments, and they get bumped off. The TS connections are made across the Internet to another site.

I've also seen it on another client with a TS server behind a BEFSX41 that I have trouble keeping a connection to. Both of them are running the known-buggy 1.50.18 firmware, but aside from the terminal services connection problem they work fine.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15421728 Tue, 07 Feb 2006 10:23:08 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15417886 Flogator : You want the download link of the third item as shown on the picture :). This firmware works perfectly for both versions.

Linksys BEFSX41 Download Page

]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15417886 Mon, 06 Feb 2006 20:19:22 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15415773 JustStarting : Jan and A8CODR,

Many thanks for the advice and the link. The link leads me to a page that has 3 possible downloads: Setup Wizard; Optional Upgrade Utility; 1.52.9. Which of these do I want? Also, this appears to be the page for V2 of the BEFSX41. I have V1. Does this create a problem?

Thanks again.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15415773 Mon, 06 Feb 2006 15:52:11 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15412506 peterjbrock : Today I decided to report the memory leak problem to LinkSys. After 1 hour and 5 minutes (65 minutes), they agreed to take note of my problem and record the information detailing the issue. At 1 hour and 13 minutes I was finally happy that they had recorded the information to pass to a Product Manager.

The first 65 minutes were spent trying different firmwares, explaining the problem and discussing the logic of "Sir we don't have any record of that problem on the BEFSX41, you can't be having a problem" and how perhaps if they accept that this is a new problem it may not be on their database. I explained that if they accept that their customers may have an idea and may also be experiencing problems, then Linksys would do well to document the problem and learn from the feedback painfully provided by their clients. Imagine a product manager and a software team that never gets any feedback from clients because the standard response is "Sir we don't have any record of that problem on the BEFSX41, you can't be having a problem". When Tech Support agreed to take note of the problem and pass it to the Product Manager, I said "that is a good thing for Linksys and the product, now you can solve the problem...."

If problems are not percolated to the engineers, how will they ever be solved?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15412506 Mon, 06 Feb 2006 02:06:09 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15410670 A8codr : The firmware flash utility Jan Janowski

was refering to is located here »www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellit···rWrapper.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15410670 Sun, 05 Feb 2006 20:40:04 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15410234 Jan Janowski : I'm guessing your not using the ftp transfer program if you are referring to Firefox and IE6. Right????

There are two versions of this (Transfer) program... Make sure it is the later version (2005?).. I'm not at my home system so I don't have access to it.... If no one points you toward it, IM me and I'll send it to the email address you provide.

P.S. you should have a copy of the version you are now running, in case you don't like the new one, you can then go back....
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I'm running XP Pro SP2 with ZoneAlarm (shut down), NOD32 (disabled) and have used both Firefox and IE6 to run the update. Current BEFSX41 firmware is 1.45.3. The name of the file I downloaded from Linksys is BEFSX41_v1.52.9_code%2C0.bin. It came from the V.1 page.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15410060 Sun, 05 Feb 2006 18:24:15 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15407287 jefe : Thanks for the good post Jan.

I've been reading this thread but waiting before jumping off 1.45.7.

After reading your post maybe I'll give the new firmware a go.

said by Jan Janowski

:

Most importantly: (After 2-3 weeks of testing), I can seem to rely that the unit will be working for the Wife if I have to go out of town. V1.45.7 also was reliable in this area.

This is particularly important for me too. :D]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15407287 Sun, 05 Feb 2006 10:58:50 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15406610 srginfo : I have observed the same behaviour - it also happens on a BEFSR41.

I'm not 100% convinced that Trend-Micro is the problem because on the SX41 this behaviour does not happen with firmware 1.45.7

The workaround I found is to set the password to nothing, apply the changes, then reset the password.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15406610 Sun, 05 Feb 2006 06:39:38 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15406415 Markusi : Just noticed; if you are running Trend Micro Internet Security 2006 and you try to update the "Port Forwarding" settings you; you will continue to get a username and password challenge until you quit it or it fails (IE stopped after a few tries, Firefox would go on forever). Once I disabled TM, then tried, I could save. Evidently, the firewall in the TM was blocking a cookie or browser cache read from the router?

Just thought I would try to save someone else the hour I spent on this :huh:]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15406415 Sun, 05 Feb 2006 04:01:39 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15403526 peterjbrock : I have also had to revert to v1.51.00_hb. I could live the warm resets, but after a number of these warm resets the router would totally hang requiring full power down.

The 1.52.3 beta also had the memory leak with UPnP enabled if it had a WinXP machine with the UPnP service started - having a WinXP running with UPnP service is a requirement to see this memory leak with either 1.52.3 or 1.53.9

I run the Heart Beat signal, it may be that after a number of warm resets that the router hangs when restarting with the Heart Beat signal. This may or may not be seen with users who are experiencing warm restarts even if they are not using UPnP. Any users that experience warm restarts should also take notice of how often they need to power cycle the router.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15403526 Sat, 04 Feb 2006 18:26:05 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15400883 skrk12 : As said by others video and audio in msn not working and the internet gateway diaspears after few hours.(only Firmware i found to work with xp2 and msn video etc is BEFSX41 - v1.51.00_hb).Otherwise pages seem to load faster with new firmware.But back to BEFSX41 - v1.51.00_hb for upnp fuctions to work completely.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15400883 Sat, 04 Feb 2006 11:18:56 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15400263 Jan Janowski : V1.52.9 Vs. V1.45.7 on DSL

The way things were going, I thought I'd never leave V1.45.7 for the BEFSX41, but it looks like I might be!!!

I don't do VPN, Nor UPnP... Just plain vanilla surfing...
I do do some minor port forwarding, and blocking by Keyword or URL, Use a user-defined time server, and do forward logs to a specific IP.

PRO'S of V1.52.9 vs V1.45.7

Compared to other V1.5X.X firmware, V1.52.9 works with DSL flawlessly. I had numerous DNS and MTU problems with DSL on other V1.5X.X firmwares, that always had me revert to V1.45.7.

I had been living with an occasional java based BEFSX41 resets on uploads and speedtests in V1.45.7. That is Gone in V1.52.9.

It seems that blocking by keyword and URL maybe blocking inbound as well as outbound. Seeing Far Fewer inbound spyware names & url's in Wallwatcher vs. V1.45.7. (I'm blocking spyware names in Keywords and URL's quite successfully now... Ad-Aware tests with V1.52.9 blocking have confirmed this!)

I can finally turn on SPI (V1.45.7 only gave verbose blocking log information when SPI was off).

V1.52.9 Allows me to use a Timeserver of my own choice.

Most importantly: (After 2-3 weeks of testing), I can seem to rely that the unit will be working for the Wife if I have to go out of town. V1.45.7 also was reliable in this area.

Negative V1.52.9 items, vs. V1.45.7:

Logs for Blocking by keyword and url's are NOT VERBOSE, no
matter what I do. (V1.45.7 gave verbose Blocking logs with SPI off, that's why I ran with SPI (Advanced Hardware Firewall) off).

Minor Memory leak. (I never checked for this in V1.45.7, and it might have been there, too)... I've watched the free memory reset itself a couple of times now, without my doing anything, so whereas this is a problem, it is a minor one (for me).
NOTE HERE: Aparantly this leak may get bigger with other functions are used (VPN, UPnP?) so this might be a big problem for others...

I think it would be interesting that other users of both firmware do a comparison of the two you are comparing, so that in case anyone from Cisco/Linksys comes here, there will be comparisons stareing them in the face.....

Later!!!!
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I wonder if this is connected to the warm reset issue.
I happens randomly and within minutes appart.

I reflash back to 1.52.3 and gets a lot better.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15395231 Fri, 03 Feb 2006 15:35:00 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15388531 Tikker_LoS : This is a crazy problem, and the only issue I can come up with

using FW 1.45.7 I turned on the debug logging via the hidden page 192.168.1.1/Log4Manage.htm

Mostly out of curiosity, and to benchmark how UPnP was affecting memory in this version

but once i'd turned it on, my router stopped doing DNS!

(normally, I'd just used 192.168.1.1 as the dns server)

just adding the correct dns entries for each pc seemed to work

turning the debug logging off seems to have fixed the problem again]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15388531 Thu, 02 Feb 2006 18:28:12 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15368767 Jan Janowski : Whereas I have my own wants and needs for this product, I must "Tip my hat" to Flogator for his direction and help....

I must say, 90% of my knowledge on this product comes from things learned from "Flog".... and this Site!!
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I have changed my work computer (have 2 Win XP machines in the network) to not run the UPnP services, but still left UPnP on my wife's machine. Using my machine to watch the logs using Wall Watcher (»www.sonic.net/wallwatcher/ and the log settings in »192.168.1.1/Log4Manage.htm {the hidden pages on the router} - details included for whmwhm ), I was able to investigate if it was the router that was leaking memory by itself or if it needed MS help in the form of UPnP services. Here is what I found;

With UPnP enabled on the BEFSX41 and no UPNP active Win XP machines, there was no memory leak .
With UPnP enabled on the BEFSX41 and my wife's UPNP active Win XP machine turned on , there was the memory leak .

It appears that to see the memory leak, you must have a Win XP machine that has the UPnP service active. I have not uninstalled MSN Messenger on my wife's machine so I can not say if it is the combination of UPnP and MSW Messenger that causes the problem or just UPnP that is the root of the problem. It appears that the interaction of the two components (Linksys BEFSX41 and WinXP with UPnP) will cause a memory leak in the BEFSX41. Maybe MS does not want to play nicely with the other children and it is the root cause of the problem.

It was also interesting to see in Jan Janowski post that he sees a slow memory leak without using UPnP enabled on the router. The mystery continues.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15367700 Tue, 31 Jan 2006 04:20:25 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15366387 Boogie1060 : I'm the only one that uses this computer, and no I don't use VoIP. Maybe it was something I installed, but I don't know what. I know I installed tuneup utilities and tweaknow powerpack this weekend. Maybe it was that? ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15366387 Mon, 30 Jan 2006 22:58:41 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15365605 Jan Janowski : Falk Look at Flogator's first post in this thread.

You have to turn them on in the Linky... Hidden pages....

Just document what was turned on before you turn them all on... so you know what to turn off...

Any info He gets will be more info to report back to them....
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How do manage to see the Routers mem space?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15363229 Mon, 30 Jan 2006 16:29:27 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15361069 Jan Janowski : DSL (SBC Dynamic IP)
PC DNS entries changed to 2 entries that get pushed to me when I connect for IP (Not Router IP). Other computers off.. only one computer connected to BEFSX41 right now.
I believe UPnP off here:
Right Click on My Computer
Manage
Services & applications
Services
UPnP not started
Also checked netstat -an
No port 5000 entries

On Bootup Free memory is 421
30 seconds after bootup 419
6 minutes after bootup 416
40 minutes after bootup 415
Monday morning
10 hours 27 minutes 412
10 hours 28 minutes 411
10 hours 39 minutes 410
11 hours 34:30 ---- 405
13 hours 2:30 ----- 404
At 13 hours 6 minutes turned on 2nd computer with Router IP for DNS entry. This computer Not running UPnP services (Port 5000).
13 hours 6:00 ------404
13 hours 14:30------403
13 hours 24:30 -----400
13 hours 25:30 -----397
13 hours 29:30 -----396
13 hours 36:30 -----392
13 hours 37:00 -----389
13 hours 44:30 -----387
13 hours 45:00 -----383
13 hours 51:00 -----382
At 14 hours 8 min, changed DNS of 2nd computer from IP of router, to IP's pushed to routher by ISP.
14 hours 8:00 -------382
14 hours 9:30 -------381
14 hours 11:00 ------376
14 hours 22:00 ------374
14 hours 22:30 ------370
14 hours 26:00 ------369
14 hours 31:00 ------368
14 hours 31:30 ------367
14 hours 32:00 ------365
14 hours 35:30 ------362
14 hours 36:30 ------360
Shut computer off... Went to lunch...
Restarted One computer after lunch...
16 hours 31:30 ------359
16 hours 32:00 ------356
16 hours 34:30 ------355
16 hours 39:00 ------354
16 hours 39:30 ------355
16 hours 46:30 ------350
16 hours 51:00 ------349

I had computer on, but doing some editing, and so turned Wallwatcher off. When I turned Wallwatcher back on again:
23 hours 13:30 ------330
23 hours 16:30 ------329
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Looking for 1939 Indian Motocycle]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15361069 Mon, 30 Jan 2006 11:15:33 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15360872 Flogator : Here goes another theory about the memory leak. I have been re-reading the posts in trying to identify yet another difference between the setups. I noticed something different.

I personally don't trust Windows XP UPnP management (well I don't trust Windows XP period but that's beyond the point). What I do is literately uninstall the UPnP service in Windows XP. I solely rely on each application to handle its own UPnP handshake. Indeed, I do not have that Internet Gateway icon but I don't give a hoot. It's my setup and I know the BEFSX41 is there doing its job. I do not need an OS full of security holes to tell me what I already know.

So my theory is the following. Could it be that the the UPnP service in Windows XP is causing the BEFSX41 to leak? Could people running Windows XP with and without the UPnP service post their log leaking results?

Again, I post these ideas because my test BEFSX41 unit is running 1.52.9, I have UPnP enable in the router, DNS pointing to ISP and Windows UPnP service is not installed on any of my home PCs.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15360872 Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:44:22 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15360790 Flogator : Boogle1060, RTSP appears to be some kind of streaming protocol for VoIP application. These entries usually don't show up by themselves. Either this entry was added up directly by you or another member of your household or that someone run a program that install a VoIP application and autonomously add this entry to the router. Do you use any VoIP application/appliances on your LAN?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15360790 Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:31:30 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15360758 Flogator : darkravine, I have not yet tested that part. However, if the problem is still present in 1.52.9, disabling SPI (as known as Advanced Firewall) should workaround the issue. I don't like disabling SPI but it is always a trade-off with requirements.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15360758 Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:26:01 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15360620 jschumann : Funny, I don't have UPNP enabled (Router or XP Pro) and I did video halfway around the world (I am in Australia right now) with my brother on MSN messenger 7.5 for over 3 hours straight with no problems. He has a BEFSR41 default settings and old firmware.

I have 2 VPN tunnels connected BEFSX41 to BEFSX41 and SPI is on. VPN tunnels work great. I use DHCP default settings, main computer on static IP and DNS points to Router, Laptop is dynamic. No warm resets. I am on DSL here.

Now the weird thing.....MSN Messenger voice only will not work, but video with voice does??????

I do get a lot more 'Invalid TCP Packet received, dropping packet' messages on WW since the upgrade, but everything (that I use) seems to be working.....]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15360620 Mon, 30 Jan 2006 09:57:06 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15360306 DWadsworth : All of my machines are pointing to external DNS servers. None pointing to the router. 12 hours with no resets. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15360306 Mon, 30 Jan 2006 08:40:31 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15360296 whmwhm : perterjbrock,

I'm a Newbie when it comes to understanding logs from the BEFSX41. Is there a reference I could read that explains how to detect problems such as memory loss?

When I recently upgraded from 1.45.7 to 1.52.9, AIM started to disconnect/reconnect. I have the following setup:

SBC DSL;
Efficient Speedstream 5100b Modem doing PPPOe and assigning WAN address to BEFSX41 ver 1;
UPnP off;
MTU=1492;
DNS on BEFSX41 points to Modem LAN address (192.168.0.1);
All Computers have static IPs and DNS also points to Modem.

Pages load very quickly and no address resolution issues with these settings, except for the AIM disconnect/reconnect.

I'll probably try putting in the SBC DNS addresses on the Linksys router and computers to see if the AIM issues goes away.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15360296 Mon, 30 Jan 2006 08:35:45 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15360120 peterjbrock : Hi Flogator,

Reviewing my logs I see that in the first 30 seconds there is no memory leak. Thereafter, there is a memory leak when ever the UPnP operation UPnPAdvertise!!continue appears. Even if there is no other event logged in Wall Watcher, when a UPnPAdvertise!!continue occurs there is a leak in resources.

WallReViewer - as of 30/01/2006 11:26:37 PM AUS Eastern Standard Time (Timestamps are Local Time)
Date Time Dir Prot Rem IP Addr Remote Name R Port Lcl IP Addr L Port
2006/01/30 22:42:26 M [0:01:00] real_free=418(418),free=4 0 0
2006/01/30 22:41:58 M --> UPnP_flag Port 5678 => 6150 SYN 0 0
2006/01/30 22:41:57 M --> UPnP_flag Port 5678 => 5126 SYN 0 0
2006/01/30 22:41:57 M --> UPnP_flag Port 5678 => 4870 SYN 0 0
2006/01/30 22:41:57 M --> UPnP_flag Port 5678 => 4614 SYN 0 0
2006/01/30 22:41:57 M --> UPnP_flag Port 5678 => 4358 SYN 0 0
2006/01/30 22:41:57 M --> UPnP_flag Port 5678 => 4102 SYN 0 0
2006/01/30 22:41:57 M --> UPnP_flag Port 5678 => 3846 SYN 0 0
2006/01/30 22:41:57 M --> UPnP_flag Port 5678 => 3590 SYN 0 0
2006/01/30 22:41:56 M --> UPnP_flag Port 5678 => 3334 SYN 0 0
2006/01/30 22:41:56 M UPnPAdvertise!!continue 0 0
2006/01/30 22:41:56 M uiCorpCurCtrs=0(1300),uiExtCurCtrs= 0 0
2006/01/30 22:41:56 M [0:00:30] real_free=421(421),free=4 0 0
2006/01/30 22:41:40 O tcp 207.46.6.78 1863 192.168.0.10 4688
2006/01/30 22:41:26 M uiCorpCurCtrs=0(1300),uiExtCurCtrs= 0 0
2006/01/30 22:41:26 M [0:00:00] real_free=421(421),free=4 0 0 ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15360120 Mon, 30 Jan 2006 07:34:09 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15360064 peterjbrock : Hi Flogator,

My PC (2x - both XP Professional) have static IPs and the DNS is pointed to the ISP.

After your post I tried;
1 - I put in predetermined DNS config into the DHCP - no change in memory leak, still leaking like a sieve.
2 - I disabled DHCP - no change in memory leak, still leaking like a sieve.
3 - Disabled UPnP. NO memory leak - as reported in Wall Watcher after enabling »192.168.0.1/Log4Manage.htm

I would argue that UPnP implementation in the BEFSX41 is faulty. BTW if you run WinXP - Pro, you will see an 'Internet Gateway Connection' appear in your Network connections. Now the property page associated with the 'Internet Gateway Connection' will not report statistics correctly, I have reported this to Linksys for the past year (as I have reported the memory leak also) - with no response.

I will leave UPnP disabled today to see if that resolves the memory leak and warm restarts. However, this is not a solution for my wife who uses MSN Messenger and needs UPnP for video, voice, file transfer. Life is to short to argue with my wife and I would not argue with her about some faulty implementation of UPnP on a router because A) life is to short and more importantly B) I love her. Now Linksys I can argue with....

Flogator, thanks for the feedback.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15360064 Mon, 30 Jan 2006 07:07:05 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15359397 Trooper : I am looking to try out this firmware. It's been so long since I have upgraded firmware in my Linksys. (Currently running 1.45.7)

What is the proper way to upgrade? And also downgrade if I end up not liking this version.

TIA. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15359397 Mon, 30 Jan 2006 01:16:19 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15358794 Boogie1060 : I installed the new firmware and I just noticed a new port is opened in my router that I didn't open myself. What is that port used for, and should I be concerned?

*edit* it's RTSP

]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15358794 Sun, 29 Jan 2006 23:32:29 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15358716 anon : Flogator, what about the disconnection problem with MSN? I have a BEFSX41 V2 that came preloaded with 1.50.18. It appears it will disconnect me off Messenger (and apparanatly off AIM from what other people have said even though I do not use AIM) after about 5 minutes, and I do not know until I try to send a message or change my status, etc... I lived with this during 1.50.18 but patiently waited for new firmware and after seeing 1.52.9 I certiantly thought it would have been fixed by now since 1.50.18 dates back to 04/18/2004 but alas after almost two years it has not been fixed. What can we do and have you reported it to Linksys?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15358716 Sun, 29 Jan 2006 23:16:40 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15358316 Jan Janowski : Thanks for in-depth info Flog....
Yes, I was using the IP address of the router for PC DNS entry. I changed it to the two that get pushed to me when I connect for IP (SBC DSL Dynamic IP package here).

Did not notice a leak, but didn't have UPnP enabled, either!
Thanks for the good clear information!!! :)

More memory data (more info logged) Ver 1 BEFSX41 (3 LEDS per port):
On Bootup Free memory is 421
30 seconds after bootup 419
6 minutes after bootup 416
40 minutes after bootup 415
Monday morning
10 hours 27 minutes 412
10 hours 28 minutes 411
10 hours 39 minutes 410

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Looking for 1939 Indian Motocycle]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15358316 Sun, 29 Jan 2006 22:12:24 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15358311 Flogator : peterjbrock, the MSN Messenger problem you are having, I have reported them to Linksys. For the past few betas, I blamed it on UPnP not working properly. However, since Linksys did not debug it further, I hammered it until I catch the bug. I have even provided packet capture to Linksys such that they fix the problem. I will catch up with Linksys this week about this problem.

Basically, the MSN Messenger problem affects voice, video and file sharing. God knows why, the BEFSX41 alters one important packet during the MSN handshake. This subtle hassle modification causes the whole handshake to fail :(. Once I have more information, I'll post it to this thread. Meanwhile, I'm investigating one possible workaround. Although, I don't like even before trying it out as it implies reducing the MTU which I don't like doing :(. I'll keep this thread updated about that one too.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15358311 Sun, 29 Jan 2006 22:11:41 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15358259 Flogator : To all users experiencing memory leak problem using 1.52.9. Could you please verify what DNS server is assigned to your PCs. Although UPnP appears to be the source of the problem, I am having some doubts at the moment (Yeah, sometimes, I'm that skeptical man ;)).

The router has some problems when the PCs behind the BEFSX41 have their DNS pointing to the router instead of the ISP DNS servers. It appears to me that the BEFSX41 does not proxy DNS request properly. If your PC's DNS points to the ISP DNS server, I am about to bet that you will not see these memory leaks.

Reason I say this is I have UPnP enable. I do not see memory leak even when exercising UPnP. My PC's DNS points to the ones of my ISP. I remember I had problems when my PC acquired their IP from the BEFSX41 prior to the router getting its IP from the ISP. In that scenario, the BEFSX41 will hand out its own IP address and thereof the PCs will get their DNS query being proxied by the BEFSX41. That caused me problems although I admit I did not related them to memory leaks. Releasing and renewing IP on my PCs fixed that problem of mine.

I will be running more tests tonight and report more findings. Meanwhile, if any of you guys can confirm or contradict my theory, please post to this thread.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15358259 Sun, 29 Jan 2006 22:03:47 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15357685 Jan Janowski : Want to compare notes with others... V1.52.9/DSL

Twice now I've come across an in-ability to surf (DNS issues.... I can ping IP but not www of site)..

Both times, I was in the setup menus, one time printing out each menu for reference, and the 2nd playing with log settings.

Just reporting... Not enough info to say any more.

p.p.s: Finally upgraded to WallWatcher 3.2.27(13)
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Looking for 1939 Indian Motocycle]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15357685 Sun, 29 Jan 2006 20:43:39 EDT Memory Leak Found!!! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15356700 DWadsworth : Thanks to Jan, I did some further investigation, and found that the apparent memory leak is in the UPnP function selected on the Adminstration Management page. With that enabled, the router will warm reset every 30 to 90 minutes. With it disabled, memory usage is normal and it doesn't look like the resets occur. Something is wrong in that segment of the code. :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15356700 Sun, 29 Jan 2006 18:00:53 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15356526 DWadsworth : Every 30 to 90 minutes. The only substantial difference in setup looks like UPnP between you and me. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15356526 Sun, 29 Jan 2006 17:28:53 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15356015 Jan Janowski : How often do you see a soft reset? I'm not seeing it in Wallwatcher, here. Origionally used V2.2.21, upgraded today to V2.2.22 Wallwatcher, and don't see it there, either.

DSL (MTU 1492), SPI ON, User Defined Time Server (192.43.244.18)

NO: VPN, DDNS, MAC Clone, UPnP, DMZ, QoS

Yes: Logs enabled, Blocking by Keyword and URL all active.

No Timestamps being used: Enabled 24/7/365 to all IP's & Macs
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Looking for 1939 Indian Motocycle]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15356015 Sun, 29 Jan 2006 16:00:21 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15355911 DWadsworth : Sure looks like a memory leak in the router to me. I've watched the free memory walk down by 4 units each 30 seconds until it resets. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15355911 Sun, 29 Jan 2006 15:41:47 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15355828 fxtr : I don't currently use instant messaging so I can't really say if it was/is a problem. I did use it occasionally and very lightly in the past with ver. 1.45.7 with no disconnects and SPI enabled.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15355828 Sun, 29 Jan 2006 15:27:19 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15355757 somuchfaster :

said by fxtr

:

SPI, UPnP and logging are switched on.

Ok, thanks for the info. As far as I knew, the disconnects with Instant Messaging s/w was caused by SPI being enabled. Strange that you don't get them, I'm running 1.45.7 here and I do with SPI enabled. I just live with it as I'd rather have SPI enabled than disabled.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15355757 Sun, 29 Jan 2006 15:13:31 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15355582 peterjbrock : Flogator,
I am on cable using 'Heart Beat Signal' so I have a dynamic IP.
UPnP is enabled and two computers are using MSN Messenger.
DHCP is enabled, however at this time only 2 clients - both with static IP.
Log is enabled.
Firewall is enabled.
Ident blocking is enabled.
QoS is DISABLED.

MSN Messenger does work with video (will try file transfer later today).

Regards,
Peter]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15355582 Sun, 29 Jan 2006 14:38:57 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15355136 whmwhm : Flogator,

Since I've upgraded to 1.52.9 from 1.45.7, my son has been noticing AIM disconnects / reconnects. Is this the same issue you mentioned with MSN?

I use a very straight-forward setup with a SBC DSL Speedstream 5100b modem doing the PPPOe and assigning the WAN IP address to the BEFSX41. I have a mixture of static IP clients (computers, printers, wireless routers and NAS)and a XBOX and a media center that are assigned IP addresses by the router. One feature I like with the new firmware is that the DNS server address on the BEFSX41 was set by default to the LAN address of the 5100b modem. I changed all the DNS address settings on the static clients and have not experienced any problems with address resolution.

Regards]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15355136 Sun, 29 Jan 2006 13:21:33 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15354460 DWadsworth : On cable - dynamic IP
One machine behind the router collects and ftps weather information to my ISP every 5 minutes - the contents varies each period. There are several point-to-point applications, but they are very low content (few hundred bytes)
IIS is running on the weather machine but is limited to the local network.
I have two web cameras on the network that use UPnP and are visible on port 80 and 81.
No timer filters.

My network is a bit of a hybrid. The weather machine, Network attached storage and main machine are on a 1G switch. The router, WAP, my laptop are on 100M. The 1G connects to one of the router ports. This worked reasonably well on a BEFSR41 - couldn't detect warm resets there, but suspect it was happening as well.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15354460 Sun, 29 Jan 2006 11:17:59 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15354200 fxtr : SPI, UPnP and logging are switched on.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15354200 Sun, 29 Jan 2006 10:19:45 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15353946 Flogator : DWadsworth and peterjbrock, would you mind sharing a bit of your setup with us? Reason I asked is I've got many features enabled on my test unit and I am not experiencing these warm resets. I've enabled the all logs in Log4Manage.htm but the real_free/free values are constants. Perhaps it is one of the other features I haven't enabled that caused this. Most specifically:

- Are you guys on cable (Dynamic IP) or DSL (PPPoE)?
- Are you using point-to-point application (i.e. BitTorrent), if so which one?
- Do you run any kind of servers behind your router (i.e. FTP, SMTP, HTTP, etc.)?
- Are you running any applications using UPnP (i.e. MSN), if so which one?
- Are you using the timer filters (called Restrict Access by Linksys)?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15353946 Sun, 29 Jan 2006 09:11:59 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15353922 Flogator : whmwhm, at this stage, it is still premature to flush 1.45.7 nor 1.51.00 permanently. I still have three sites that are on these older versions. There is this annoying behavior with MSN that I would like to be fixed. Beside, a few users have started to experience random warm reboots (that I haven't experienced myself yet). If Linksys is capable of delivering a sequel to 1.52.9 with the MSN problem fixed (and perhaps this random warm reboots too), then and only then I would eliminate 1.45.7 and 1.51.00 from my routers.

Though I must admit that Linksys did take a considerable step forward by releasing 1.52.9. Most of us will say: "It's about cotton picking time". For me it means two things: Linksys hasn't phased out BEFSX41 development and that they seems to listen to what we tell them.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15353922 Sun, 29 Jan 2006 09:03:36 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15353609 peterjbrock : I also see the warm restarts. I see that there is some sort of resource usage that is continually decreasing the available resource. Set the options in »192.168.1.1/Log4Manage.htm and watch in WallWatcher and you will see the following entries.
2006/01/29 15:40:40.50 M [0:50:00] real_free=220(220),free=220,alloc=179,rel=0,wt=201
2006/01/29 15:41:08.44 M [0:50:30] real_free=218(218),free=218,alloc=179,rel=0,wt=203
2006/01/29 15:41:36.39 M [0:51:00] real_free=216(216),free=216,alloc=179,rel=0,wt=205
2006/01/29 15:42:04.33 M [0:51:30] real_free=214(214),free=214,alloc=179,rel=0,wt=207

My guess is when 'free' gets low it warm resets. A memory leak?

I saw this in an earlier beta 1.52.6b3.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15353609 Sun, 29 Jan 2006 06:44:26 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15350629 DWadsworth : Getting many warm resets - once every half-hour or so. Destroys the ftp process that is running. 1.59.2 no QoS, no Firewall, no VPN,... Anyone have a suggestion? Most traffic is ftp data to net.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15350629 Sat, 28 Jan 2006 17:52:14 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15349534 somuchfaster :

said by fxtr

:

Installed 1.52.9 this AM, was 1.51.0 on a Ver.1 BEFSX41.
Just doing the basics, no VPN or blocking.
Works just as well as 1.51.0. I do not get any MSN disconnects with either version.

Do you have SPI switched on or off?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15349534 Sat, 28 Jan 2006 14:36:45 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15345550 fxtr : Installed 1.52.9 this AM, was 1.51.0 on a Ver.1 BEFSX41.
Just doing the basics, no VPN or blocking.
Works just as well as 1.51.0. I do not get any MSN disconnects with either version.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15345550 Fri, 27 Jan 2006 22:04:49 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15345409 whmwhm : Flogator,

Do you recommend 1.52.9 as a replacement for 1.45.7 or is it too soon to tell?

Thank you]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15345409 Fri, 27 Jan 2006 21:42:46 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15343334 anon : Is it just me or does this new firmware STILL disconnect me from MSN?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15343334 Fri, 27 Jan 2006 16:20:12 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15338862 jbob : I finally loaded it but am not gonna run it. I did notice the gui screens appear much faster however I am still seeing lags for the full page(s) to display the images fully. When I load a different page I typically see hesitation in the browser page load progress bar. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15338862 Thu, 26 Jan 2006 23:10:39 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15338791 Flogator : There is only one 1.52.9. I suspect that Jan is referring to 1.52.9B3 because of the file name: BEFSX41_v1.52.9_003_code.bin.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15338791 Thu, 26 Jan 2006 23:01:35 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15336959 jbob : I'm curious if you are testing a different version. You keep posting 1.52.9B3. I have not installed it yet so not sure what version shows up on router. Anyone?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15336959 Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:51:45 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15336933 Jan Janowski : V1.52.9B3 on DSL
As posted above, I'm testing Blocking by Keywords and URL's.
I'm getting more non-verbose indication of blocks, and a few more Wallwatcher indications of incoming spyware stuff, and a very rare Invalid TCP packet statements...
Haven't encountered any DNS issues..

But... This is the first Version higher than V1.45.7 that has lasted this long under test!!!

While I was typing this, I was also running a pass of Ad-Aware.... NO SPYWARE FOUND!!

Would like to know which keyword was matched... (More Verbose responses in Logs).... But it definately warrents longer testing!!!
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Looking for 1939 Indian Motocycle]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15336933 Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:47:37 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15331164 Flogator : I'm surprised :). Linksys actually released a firmware. Not only that but they released a good firmware too. Since I have been running this firmware for a few days now, I just thought I could share my findings with you guys. Below is my list of bugs that I am tracking. I must admit I am pleased and impressed by this firmware.

Bugs present in 1.52.9

•UPnP is working. However, MSN Messenger may have problem establishing voice/video/file sharing session.•The QoS feature is only partially working•The bug called "No connect button in manual keying" is still present. This makes manual keying useless.•The bug called "Strange logs with VPN passthrough" is still present.•The limitation called "Filter logs do not indicate which filter number was it" is still present•The bug called "SNMP attribute sysUpTime increments 10 times too fast" is still present.Features I use and that work with 1.52.9

•DDNS•SNMP•Built-in VPN End-point•VPN Passthrough•UPnP (well as I said above UPnP works but MSN still has problems)•Local Loopback (as known as NAT Redirection)•NTP Servers (for router time synchronization)•Logging•Email alerts•Passes grc.com and securityspace.com audit tests for full stealth mode•NetBIOS through Built-in VPN End-Point•IDENT port can be stealth•Can do tracert/traceroute•Basic time filters•Can access long URL without crashing the router•Can set some web filters without crashing the router (tested Java, ActiveX and Cookies)I must admit that I am very impressed with this firmware. Yet not perfect but impressive. For me, the remaining show stopper is this MSN Messenger problem.

The firmware offers the following hidden pages that I provided for your own pleasure:

192.168.1.1/SysInfo.htm

192.168.1.1/Log4Manage.htm

192.168.1.1/FilterMAC.htm

192.168.1.1/BackupnRestore.htm

192.168.1.1/HideSystemMenu.htm

Additionally, again for your own pleasure, the firmware hides the following page content but are not accessible. There is nothing anyone can do about other than taking a peek at them.

A strange help page

A strange DSL page

A strange wireless page

]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15331164 Wed, 25 Jan 2006 23:34:39 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15330496 jbob : That's me! lol I finally moved on several months ago. Still it'd make a great backup device if my primary fails. I'm still waiting for the serious users like flogator, d_l, etc to report their findings.
Guess we're all hoping for a breakthrough here! :-) Maybe, just maybe Cisco/Linksys can redeem themselves. Of course it should have never taken this long. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15330496 Wed, 25 Jan 2006 21:56:43 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15330384 Innuendo : Look at all of these good reports! Dare I hope that Linksys has finally gotten the SX41 firmware right?

I truly hope so...although I have moved on from my SX41 I still have a soft spot for it & would love to be able to start recommending this router to people again.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15330384 Wed, 25 Jan 2006 21:40:33 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15328249 Badders : Sorry!!!!!!!!
Ignore the above - my fault.
It's working fine. :uhh:]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15328249 Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:25:35 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15326579 Badders : Strange thing happening with Port Forwarding:

I've got it set to forward a single port for UDP and TCP (BitTorrent) but it's blocking the TCP connections (UDP are allowed through). The GUI is set to "Both".]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15326579 Wed, 25 Jan 2006 13:59:54 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15325538 Jan Janowski :

said by jschumann

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I loaded it. Both VPN tunnels working OK.

I note that wallwatcher is dropping a lot of 'invalid' TCP packets where it didn't on version 1.51.0.

All seem to be related to IM programs (running Trillian). Mostly coming in on Ports 505 and 5190.

I noticed a bunch of those in wallwatcher in V1.52.6, but on the V1.52.9B3, I've seen a couple, but not a lot....

However, if memory serves me, I did not see those dropped packets at first, but they were more predominant after a few days..... Kind of like the DNS problem...
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Looking for 1939 Indian Motocycle]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15325538 Wed, 25 Jan 2006 11:54:19 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15325145 jbob : Just downloaded it here as well. Of note I wanna mention the differences between v1 and v2. The v1 model has 3 lights per port while the newer v2 only has 1 light per port much like all the newer models.

I too had a funny naming scheme when downloading this firmware. I first attempted to download from v1 and the name given for download was "BEFSX41_v1.52.9_code%2C0.bin" 704kb. I slected v2 and treid to download that firmware and got "BEFSX41_v1.52.9_code.bin" also 704kb. That seemed more normal. Also when attempt the download I not only get a download box but the main browswer page changes to a "500 Servlet Exception" every time.

Of note I have had issues with downloading firmware in the recent past. I got a new RV082 router and when downloading the latest from the site I could not get it to flash. I treid different computers and it seeemed all the downloads were corrupted. I kept getting all those funny naming schemes too. I finally got Linksys to email me the updated firmware and it flashed perfectly.

And as usual waiting for Flogator to make some comments! lol]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15325145 Wed, 25 Jan 2006 11:00:32 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15325130 jschumann : I loaded it. Both VPN tunnels working OK.

I note that wallwatcher is dropping a lot of 'invalid' TCP packets where it didn't on version 1.51.0.

All seem to be related to IM programs (running Trillian). Mostly coming in on Ports 505 and 5190. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15325130 Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:57:50 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15325004 fbelcher : I got this from linksys site ...notice it says for v1 and 2

Linksys- A Division of Cisco System, Inc.

Firmware Date : January 11, 2006
Current Firmware : Version 1.52.9
Product Part No. : BEFSX41 v1/v2]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15325004 Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:36:58 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15324489 Jan Janowski : V1.52.9B3 on DSL

I've been running it for a few days now.... Not quite long enough to say the DNS issues I had with V1.52.6 is gone, but it might be gone.

Interesting experience with Blocking by keywords and URL's..........
If I enter the name (Say doubleclick) in google, it gets blocked going out, As expected...
However, when I go to ebay, and there I expect to see inbound doubleclick entires in Wallwatcher..... but I'm not seeing them inbound... Occasionally, but not always...

Does that mean that blocking by keyword and URL is blocking INBOUND too? Not sure.....

So......

I start "Trolling for Spyware" Go to a site, and watch wallwatcher for spyware entries.... Then Run Ad-Aware to see if I was right... If I was, document the spyware name, delete it, and go back to that site and browse and confirm with another pass of Ad-Aware that that was the site that contained Spyware... Then.....
Go into Linky and enter those names in Blocking by Keyword or URL, and then back at the site to verify that they don't show in Wallwatcher.... and confirm with another pass of Ad-Aware....

It appears that once I put the name in Blocking by Keyword or URL, that I never see that name in inbound in Wallwatcher..... Does that mean that it is blocking inbound as well as outbound???

It appears so.... Not 100% effective (an occasional one sneaks in but is blocked going out)....

Other notes on Blocking by Keyword and URL:
The blocked entries are (for the most part) Not Verbose...
It will say that something matched and was blocked, but doesn't say what.... Again... Occasionally it will post verbose (indicate what was matched, but usually not).

If anyone else has been testing Blocking by Keyword or URL, I'd be interested to know if you are seeing the same or something different....

Jan
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Looking for 1939 Indian Motocycle]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15324489 Wed, 25 Jan 2006 09:02:39 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15324281 siliconman01 : Thanks Alim...that's a relief. I was hoping it might well be a Linksys site error.

I appear to have regained significant bandwidth with this new firmware. I was running down around 1.9 mbits and now am up to 2.8 mbits for a 3 mbit Charter pipeline cable modem connectionn. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15324281 Wed, 25 Jan 2006 08:26:06 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15324252 Eko :

said by siliconman01

:

Is this an error from the Linksys download site or am I running flakey firmware because I removed the ,0?

I notice that if I specify that I have a BEFSX41 V2.0, the Linksys download is BEFSX41_v1[1].52.9_code.bin.

Both files are byte-to-byte identical. The ",0" must be a mistake. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15324252 Wed, 25 Jan 2006 08:16:36 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15324200 siliconman01 : I'm running the BEFSX41 V1.0. When I downloaded the 1.52.9 firmware, it downloads only 704 kbytes and the name is BEFSX41_v1[1].52.9_code,0.bin.

In trying to upgrade the firmware from 1.50.18 to this new version, the upgrade fails. If I change the name of the downloaded file to BEFSX41_v1[1].52.9_code.bin (removed ,0) the firmware upgrade installs just fine. And the BEFSX41, V1.0 runs fine.

Is this an error from the Linksys download site or am I running flakey firmware because I removed the ,0?

I notice that if I specify that I have a BEFSX41 V2.0, the Linksys download is BEFSX41_v1[1].52.9_code.bin.

I "think" I am using a V1.0. The front panel surely looks different from a new BEFSX41 on www.buy.com. I surely do not find V1.0 or V2.0 on the router or the box it came in. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15324200 Wed, 25 Jan 2006 07:58:30 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15323859 anon : Cool about time. But why are there three different downloads? What's the difference?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15323859 Wed, 25 Jan 2006 05:08:10 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15323205 Konceptz : so far its running smoothly on my sx41. I've noticed that the routers page load completely now....
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"Windows Has Yet To Detect A Keyboard. Press Any Key To Continue..."]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15323205 Wed, 25 Jan 2006 00:45:56 EDT Re: has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmwar http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15322331 anon : I just uploaded it. I updated the router from the last linksys published firmware from their site. No issues I can see. All settings carried over and I did the upgrade from the router, not from the utility.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15322331 Tue, 24 Jan 2006 22:27:03 EDT has any 1 with a BEFSX41 tried the new firmware ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15321007 Frydays : the befsx41 page at linksys has new firmware has any 1 tried it ? its not a beta

Firmware Date:1/11/2006
Firmware Release Version:1.52.9]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15321007 Tue, 24 Jan 2006 19:41:04 EDT