[ale] BellSouth ADSL and LinkSys Router problem?

[John Mills]

HI, Pete -

On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Pete Hardie wrote:
> I recently got BellSouth ADSL and the popular LinkSys EtherFast DSL router.
> So far, everything seems ok, but a coworker has mentioned that he has seen
> a problem where the the internal side address of the router is exposed to
> the ouside world, causing problems with collisions/reassignment and loss
> of DSL PPPoE connection.

DISCLAIMER - I am running against a single, static IP address, neither
PPPoE nor DCHP on the WAN side, so I would not have seen any such problem.

The LAN-side address of the router is: 192.168.1.1
 I suppose you could try to 'ping' or browse that address from the WAN
[external] connection and see if it answered. Or serve it via DCHP and see
if you could get administrative access from that side.

> Does anyone know more about this?  Or is it some problem fixed in an update?

You can see your router's firmware version from one of the configuration
screens, and compare it with the changelog LinkSys posts on their web site
to see what fixes may be included. My unit is one or two minor revs back,
which means I would have to upgrade my firmware in order to have the
feature to 'clone' my host NIC's MAC address into the router. (Cute, huh?
but I didn't need it.)

I read one review which said that remote administration (access to
configure the router from the LAN side) was enabled by default, but that
is _not_ true for my unit - your worry might be history by now, even if it
was once true.

If your co-worker has any more data I would love to hear about it.

Office Depot has the 4-port model rebated down to $99.xx right now, which
looks like an excellent buy.

-- 
Regards -
 John Mills

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