sodface
08-17-2003, 08:29 PM
My dad teaches internet classes and he was pinging over the blaster worm - comcast was actually calling customers with a recording telling them how and where to install and get the required patch and how to clean their systems- anyway I went over to help him out. He had been running cable directly with no firewall whatsoever so I bought him a d-link di-604 4 port router with NAT/Firewall based on some good reviews I read - this was some months ago and it had been working fine for all that time. Until tonight. As an afterthought, when I was finished running the virus scan/patches (he was clean and up to date anyway) I decided to do the port scan at grc.com. It showed a response from port 113 (ident) and also showed the router responding to pings. Unfortunately, rather the properly configuring the router I went straight to a firmware upgrade. It didn't complete properly according to their directions. IE6 just displayed a connection error page several seconds after I hit the upgrade button. I logged back in to the router and the firmware revision was upgraded but the "media disconnected" balloon keeps popping up every minute or so and l lose all connectivity to the router. Obviously this makes web browsing all but impossible. I tried reverting back to a previous firmware revision, no go. I rebooted, reset, drop-kicked everything, but the problem persists. Throttling the NIC back to 10/full or 10/half seems to help a little, but not completely. It is not a cable problem, as I brought the stupid thing back to my place and had the same difficulty. I emailed d-link. Any other ideas?:confused: