On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 11:27 -0700, mark wolfe wrote:
> Christoph Maier wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 01:05 -0700, Christian Seberino wrote:
> >> On Wed, June 13, 2007 12:08 am, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote:
> >>
> >>> nor here.  stock WRT-54G.  what's your uplink?  it's possible that
> >>> your external IP is getting hammered by scans after being online for
> >>> a few days, and rebooting it gets you a new IP address that
> >>> "relieves" the problem.
> >> I'm using DSLExtreme.  I wouldn't have thought of that.  I think
> >> DSLExtreme had an optional firewall option.  Hopefully that firewall is
> >> upstream and shields my poor little dynamic IP from the hostile Internet.
> >>
> >> thanks!
> >>
> >> cs
> > 
> > I seem to have the same problem now, with a Roadrunner connection. 
> > Is it possible to verify that the router is indeed stymied by scans?
> > 
> > My router becomes completely unresponsive even after I cycle the power
> > to both modem and router. Does this mean the router is getting hacked
> > and running something that's downloaded from the net?
> > 
> > Christoph
> 
> Is yours stock or flashed?   The stock firmware on some of those had an 
> issue where it wouldn't time out connections and eventually eat up all 
> the available ports.   Most the aftermarket firmware alleviates this, 
> it's only really a problem if you do tons of P2P.
> 
> Mark

So far, it's stock.

Christoph


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