On Monday 05 April 2010, Michael Miles wrote:
On 04/04/2010 10:01 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 05 April 2010, Michael Miles wrote:
>> On 04/04/2010 07:41 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> On Sunday 04 April 2010, Michael Miles wrote:
>>>> On 04/04/2010 12:32 PM, Dave Ihnat wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 03:26:52PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>>>>>> I see no benefit to a hardware router vs. running Linux with the
>>>>>> firewall configured.
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, yes, there is. Two different platforms, different firewalls,
>>>>> mean that no single attack vector can be used on both of them.
>>>>>
>>>>> I wouldn't recommend the BEFSR41 line, though. Get a
WRT54G/WRT54GL
>>>>> and load either Tomato or DD-WRT. Much more capable than the native
>>>>> firmware, and free to boot. (Or to run...joke...)
>>>>>
>>>>>> There are good, free, firewall packages you can run on a cheap
>>>>>> machine.
>>>>>
>>>>> That's effectively what you're doing with the free firmware
on
>>>>> commercial firewalls, without the need to maintain another full OS
>>>>> and usually in a very much smaller physical package.
>>>>>
>>>>> $0.02, YMMV, etc.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> --
>>>>> Dave Ihnat
>>>>> dihnat(a)dminet.com
>>>>
>>>> I have found that yes it is quite old
>>>>
>>>> I am about to flash the firmware to the latest befsr-v1.46.02_FW_code
>>>>
>>>> its a bin file and from what I understand under linux I am to use
>>>> tftp to do this
>>>>
>>>> tftp 192.168.1.1
>>>> mode binary
>>>> put CODE.BIN
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I am just trying to figure it out before I go ahead
>>>>
>>>> Michael
>>>
>>> Please check the serial number and version of your befsr-41 on their
>>> web site before doing that, I understand that stuffing too new a FW
>>> into an older one will brick it. I know of at least 3 versions of it.
>>
>> So I should step it up by flashing all sequential updates?
>
> I have never done that myself. But there are warnings, or were, on the
> linksys download site, saying you can't put a version 3 image in a
> version 2 unit. I wasn't trying to scare you, just make sure you did
> your homework. ;-) I have one of those units, but it hasn't been
> plugged in in a couple of years as I switched to DD-WRT on a clapped out
> k6 box with everything non- essential stripped. Not even a hard drive
> or a floppy. It boots from a cf card on the end of an ide cable. I
> used gftp to update mine several times though, it Just Worked(TM). And
> so far, no one I didn't give the password to has gotten to it, or any of
> the machines behind it.
I do have the right version 2 flashfiles
The current version installed is 2 versions from the most recent
So I have looked and yes there is a problem
I flash the next in line then reset router
Do it again and again until I get to the final firmware
At least then some of the bugs I have been experiencing can get resolved
I know I should get a better router but my $$$ usually goes to other
computer endeavours like a new nvidia 295 x 2
I can hardly wait
AFAIK, there isn't anything major wrong with the befsr-41 unless it runs out
of bandwidth on a really fast circuit. I never had anyone get past it but
IIRC its length of password is a little short. Root here has a 20+
character password, and I couldn't set one more than 8 chars long in it
IIRC.
--
Cheers, Gene
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