RE: LinkSys WRT54G administration page availble to WAN

["Alan W. Rateliff, II" <lists () rateliff net>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Gillespie [mailto:mgillespie () socket net] 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 9:29 AM
> To: Alan W. Rateliff, II
> Cc: bugtraq () securityfocus com
> Subject: Re: LinkSys WRT54G administration page availble to WAN

>  Initially I spoke with an outsourced group of individuals 
> that recommended
> I forward port 80 inquiries to a null ip. This DOES work, 
> however is very
> sloppy.

Agreed.  I would prefer the problem be fixed, but this does work when all
else fails. :/

>  After repeated problems with remote admin STAYING on (keep 
> in mind, it was
> disabled, along with various other settings) I again 
> contacted linksys where
> a friendly individual informed me, "If you continue to have 
> the problem you
> could just buy a new router".

This is pretty much what they told me, in not so many words.  I was
astonished and disappointed.

>  All of this is documented in emails I have sent to Linksys. 
> I have spoken
> to Jason Hardy throughout April (Linksys Product Support 
> Case#: 2423404 and
> RE: Linksys Product Support Case#: 242340) however the issue 
> has yet to be
> resolved.

I haven't been able to contact Jason for a couple of years.  The last
contact I had with him was an issue with the WAP11v1 ignoring DHCP
assignments from the Ascend Pipeline 75.  I'm glad to see he survived the
buyout.  I considered him a valuable contact; the kind of guy who knows that
needs to be done, but seems to be caught it a pool of red tape.

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