On Monday 18 Aug 2003 9:03 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 07:52, Anne Wilson wrote: > > SMC Barricade 7401BRA adsl router > > > > On average, about once a week I have to reboot my router. No > > apparent reason - just that no Internet connection works any > > more. After a reboot, all is well, both on this box and all > > others on the net. I am not able to find any common denominator > > leading up to the problem. Any ideas, anyone? > > > > Anne > > Does it have firmware that you can update. I'd check on that > first. > > --LX
Hi, LX. Franki raised that one, but my reply to him was one of the ones that went missing, never appeared on the list. Here is what I said to him: Hi, Franki. A little while ago I downloaded the latest flash for the router and the installation instructions, which were to flash it from within the web page. 'Mine not to reason why'. I thought, and tried it. It didn't work. I contacted their tech support, who said they would email alternative instructions. They did, and it didn't work. It did screw up everything that had been there before, though, so I had to go in an reconfigure it. There was a complication in that I couldn't get a connection, which my isp traced to a line fault, which BT denied, but a short time after it was working again. Then I rang SMC's tech support again. This time a guy asked me why I was trying to flash it. He rather rudely said it was pointless - it was not necessary with the revision I had got. Between that experience and the fact that it is impossible to release a range of ports for a session (ideally I would like it to be software triggered, but I'll do it manually if necessary) I feel that when I replace it, it will not be with an SMC product. If I may, I will also copy in my replies to Ronald and Miark, which also went missing. Ronald: > Hmm, I wonder if this has anything to do with "lease time". My > Dlink 604 uses a web page for configuration, and at one point you > can adjust the lease time from a single hour up to a week. I have > it set for a week, but I've never went longer than that to see if > there is a lease issue. > > When booting up from any of my other 2 comps on the same LAN (and > going thru the router), I get a boot up message to the effect that > "infinite" lease time is used. > > Can any one else bring light to the murkiness here? :-) Lease time to me implies dhcp, which I don't think is the issue. I have a static ip both externally and internally - all our lan uses static. Miark: > Instead of re-starting the router, try re-starting the NIC. > If that works, you can set up a cronjob to check and/or fix > the problem on a regular basis. Miark, this affects all boxes on the lan, so it's not the local nic. The router is a black box. Do you mean the nic on the router? We have tried an ftp session on it, and it seems to be running some sort of windows system. I suppose it would be possible to work out a way of doing it. I'll have a think about that. It's a bit mind-boggling for so early in the morning <g> to use a linux box, ftp to a windows box, and remember what command the windows box would understand <bg> I also sent a 'what's happening' mail, but sympa bounced it. I complained to sympa, but haven't had anything back :-( but that's another thread <g> Anne
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