old_gear
@telecomitalia.it | Zywall fw 4.01 out
From Switzerland
»www.zyxel.ch/support.cfm?action=news&lang=d |
|
Brano
I hate Vogons
Premium,MVM
join:2002-06-25
Burlington, ON | Great !  |
|
Slon
join:2003-03-15
Australia | reply to old_gear
Wow! Finally! Thanks for heading-up!
I just flash it. So far so good. Will see. |
|
dslpartner
join:2005-02-18 | reply to old_gear
Just wondering how many here actually needed the new features introduced or had a problem with bugs that has been corrected this time around....
--
"Perl is executable line noise, Python is executable pseudo-code." |
|
kruser
Premium
join:2002-06-01
Saint Louis, MO
clubs: | The ability to log VPN traffic is very nice as well as being able to apply firewall rules to VPN is also nice.
I hope these features are in this formal release still!
They were in all the 4.01 betas and worked great for myself. |
|
CampMaster
Rather Be Camp'n
Premium
join:2001-05-16
Trabuco Canyon, CA | reply to old_gear
Is the UTM and non-UTM firmware versions the same?
I have the ZW5, not the UTM model, in the US, will this firmware work or should I wait?
Thanks,
~CMT
--
There's no place like 127.0.0.1 |
|
Brano
I hate Vogons
Premium,MVM
join:2002-06-25
Burlington, ON
 ·TekSavvy Solutions..
| said by CampMaster  :Is the UTM and non-UTM firmware versions the same? Yes, you can flash it, it's the same. |
|
Brano
I hate Vogons
Premium,MVM
join:2002-06-25
Burlington, ON | reply to old_gear
Just flashed it, no problems with flashing, works great (for the first 5 min  ) |
|
kruser
Premium
join:2002-06-01
Saint Louis, MO
clubs:
·AT&T Southwest
| reply to old_gear
Hey Everyone,
Let me know if anyone sees a noticeable delay in your homepage loading after you have not browsed or done any other internet activity for several minutes.
Especially on the zw5.
My zw5 seems to "fall asleep" after maybe two minutes of no internet traffic and then I see a delay of maybe 10 seconds before my home page is found and loaded.
I have zero delay as long as I'm actively browsing but once I go idle for two minutes then the delay is back.
I was hoping this final release would cure the problem but it appears the problem is still there for myself anyway 
This all started with the 4.01 beta I'd been using.
Thanks! |
|
bbarrera
Premium,MVM
join:2000-10-23
Sacramento, CA
clubs: | No problems here with "fall asleep" on zw35 and 4.01 firmware. Are you running DNS on Windows Server? There was a problem last year with 4.00 firmware and zw5 (and only zw5). |
|
kruser
Premium
join:2002-06-01
Saint Louis, MO
clubs:
·AT&T Southwest
| said by bbarrera :No problems here with "fall asleep" on zw35 and 4.01 firmware. Are you running DNS on Windows Server? There was a problem last year with 4.00 firmware and zw5 (and only zw5). Yes, DNS is on Windows Server 2k3!
Do you know something you are not telling me?
I know the delay was there with 4.00 but it was minimal, 4.01 really makes it noticeable for me!
I've searched for this problem before and never came up with anything but then again, my search skills are not always the best |
|
bbarrera
Premium,MVM
join:2000-10-23
Sacramento, CA
clubs: | Search these forums, there was a thread last year where the problem was reported. I verified and reported to Zyxel, thought it was fixed in later 4.00 firmware. Perhaps the same bug is back? Or it is a related bug. |
|
kruser
Premium
join:2002-06-01
Saint Louis, MO
clubs:
·AT&T Southwest
| I'll search for that.
I was having high hopes but the more I think about it, the more I think it may not be the problem. Could still be related however.
I have totally removed my win dns server from the picture by plugging a single machine into the zw5 and then setting dns manually to my ISP's dns or the generic 4.2.2.x servers. Problem remains and is driving me crazy trying to isolate it and get to the cause.
Thanks for the search tip! |
|
janderso1
Jim
Premium,MVM
join:2000-04-15
Saint Petersburg, FL |  reply to old_gear
Should you reset to factory defaults and renter your settings? Also, I am not sure I understand the firewall settings for VPN. It looks like the default settings are to permit VPN to any zone.
--
Jim Anderson |
|
nemo1966
join:2005-11-15
England
1 edit | reply to old_gear
I use the Z5 with a dns server on the lan (server 2k3) and never had a problem at all. Can't imagine what it could be. |
|
kruser
Premium
join:2002-06-01
Saint Louis, MO
clubs:
·AT&T Southwest
| said by nemo1966 :I use the Z5 with a dns server on the lan (server 2k3) and never had a problem at all. Can't imagine what it could be. I think I can rule out the 2k3 dns server as a cause because of my test above where I took the 2k3 server out of the picture and hooked one machine directly to the z5 lan port all by itself and still see the problem. Tried several DNS servers as well but no joy.
I'm really beginning to wonder if my z5 is maybe defective?
I've only seen one other person complain here about a similar problem but I think he referred to his problem as "z5 seems to hibernate" which is effectively what I'm seeing.
Now that 4.01 is official, I'm going to call Zyxel and see if they can help me determine the cause.
I've spent way to many hours troubleshooting and manually rebuilding my configuration!
add: just in the small time it took me to type this reply, my zw5 timed out or slept or hibernated and I had to wait 10+ seconds before it would wake up and send the spell check request to BBR! |
|
janderso1
Jim
Premium,MVM
join:2000-04-15
Saint Petersburg, FL
| reply to kruser
Are you pointing to the Zywall for DNS? I think that at one time there was a problem using the Z5 as a DNS proxy. I use my caching DNS serer as the first choice, two of my ISP servers as second and third choice and the Zywall 5 as forth choice (in case my ISP changes the IP addresses of their servers) so it takes three failure before I try my Zywall.
--
Jim Anderson |
|
mozerd
Light Will Pierce The Darkness
Premium,MVM
join:2004-04-23
Nepean, ON | reply to old_gear
So far [1 hour] working great. WLAN port and VPN all working to my satisfaction. VPN granularity nice. Nice job ZyXEL! |
|
kruser
Premium
join:2002-06-01
Saint Louis, MO
clubs:
·AT&T Southwest
| reply to janderso1
said by janderso1 :Are you pointing to the Zywall for DNS? I think that at one time there was a problem using the Z5 as a DNS proxy. I use my caching DNS serer as the first choice, two of my ISP servers as second and third choice and the Zywall 5 as forth choice (in case my ISP changes the IP addresses of their servers) so it takes three failure before I try my Zywall. Currently, I have my ISP's two DNS servers setup in the Zywall dns page. (I've confirmed the servers are running at the moment!).
Then on my only machine presently plugged into any of the Zywalls LAN ports I am configured statically with the Zywall as the gateway address and of course an IP in the Zywalls subnet range.
I've also again entered my ISP's DNS servers in the TCP/IP DNS properties page.
I've also tried setting the Zywall to be DHCP server and client to use DHCP but problem remains.
The other odd thing I've noticed is - if I let the Zywall sit with no traffic for the two minutes or so and then issue a ping command to the Zywall's LAN IP, the first attempt ALWAYS times out.
Subsequent pings are fine.
Plus if I stop the pinging and restart it before the Zywall enters its "fall asleep" mode, then the first ping ALWAYS works fine.
This should negate any DNS problem I would think as I'm sending the ping with the lan IP of the Zywall.
I should have started a new thread for this problem!
Thanks everyone so far for the suggestions! |
|
stefaanE
Premium
join:2002-07-10
Luxembourg
 ·Redwood Virtual
| reply to old_gear
I had to go back to 4.00 (pity, the 4.01 Home screen is nifty) because even with a reset to factory defaults, 4.01 didn't want to route to the Internet. I've got a PPPoE connection. The Z5 got an IP address all right, but couldn't route traffic.
No problems on the LAN, but a traceroute showed some weird behaviour:
blinky:$ ping vpnrouter
PING vpnrouter.ecc.lu (192.168.1.252) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from vpnrouter.ecc.lu (192.168.1.252): icmp_seq=1 ttl=254 time=0.554 ms64 bytes from vpnrouter.ecc.lu (192.168.1.252): icmp_seq=2 ttl=254 time=0.563
64 bytes from vpnrouter.ecc.lu (192.168.1.252): icmp_seq=3 ttl=254 time=0.595 ms
64 bytes from vpnrouter.ecc.lu (192.168.1.252): icmp_seq=4 ttl=254 time=0.559 ms
64 bytes from vpnrouter.ecc.lu (192.168.1.252): icmp_seq=5 ttl=254 time=0.583 ms
--- vpnrouter.ecc.lu ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4003ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.554/0.570/0.595/0.034 ms
blinky:$ ./traceroute pawpaw
traceroute to pawpaw.ecc.lu (66.160.135.101), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 * * *
2 vpnrouter (192.168.1.252) 1.027 ms !H 0.522 ms !H 0.499 ms !H
blinky:$
I'll try and flash again, but before that I'd appreciate if anyone who also uses PPPoE would confirm they have no problems.
Thanks and take care,
Stefaan
--
"Technically, Windows is an 'operating system,' which means that it supplies your computer with the basic commands that it needs to suddenly, with no warning whatsoever, stop operating." -Dave Barry |
|
