Much bizarreness. After (years?) of my Netgear DG834 router performing faultlessly, last night it decided it didn't want to play any more: it started rebooting every two minutes whenever the ADSL was connected.
I'm inclined to think this wasn't a random occurrence, as the data light on the ADSL port was receiving packets just before each reboot even when no local machines were plugged in, so methinks there was denial of service attack.
A quick trip (well, not so quick really with the router rebooting all the time) to to the Netgear site and a new firmware version later and everything's A-OK again. There is, however, nothing in the firmware changelogs between version 1.5 and version 2.10 to indicate that a problem like this has been fixed.
A ninja security fix, perhaps?
Sadly, the router logs were wiped out by the reboot, so I never did get to see exactly what was going on. Not that the logs are much use anyway...
I'm inclined to think this wasn't a random occurrence, as the data light on the ADSL port was receiving packets just before each reboot even when no local machines were plugged in, so methinks there was denial of service attack.
A quick trip (well, not so quick really with the router rebooting all the time) to to the Netgear site and a new firmware version later and everything's A-OK again. There is, however, nothing in the firmware changelogs between version 1.5 and version 2.10 to indicate that a problem like this has been fixed.
A ninja security fix, perhaps?
Sadly, the router logs were wiped out by the reboot, so I never did get to see exactly what was going on. Not that the logs are much use anyway...
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