please use BitTorrent

[Rodolfo J. Paiz]

At 17:04 11/5/2003, you wrote:
>Alas! I discovered what the problem is...my router!
>
>If you have a Linksys BESR41 router...don't use BitTorrent. Or Gnutella as
>an ultrapeer. Apparently, the firmware on this, and other products that
>have this chip in common, crash and burn when a large (>16) number of
>connections per IP address behind NAT are established. In other words. A
>very busy Torrent will bork your router, and the only way to fix this is
>to reboot it.

This is one of the reasons why I find old (P/100 type) machines and make 
them home firewalls with Fedora! <grin>

>Fun :-(

More fun when your firewall also does DNS, DHCP, and NTP for the home 
network. <smile>


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Rodolfo J. Paiz
rpaiz at simpaticus.com