Router help please - Linksys Windows only?

[Larry]

On 02/04/2012 05:37 PM, don fisher wrote:
> I am receiving The following error messages every 30 seconds in
> /var/log/messages:
>
> avahi-daemon[1029]: Received response from host 192.168.7.1 with
> invalid source port 32783 on interface 'eth0.0'
>
> I looked on the internet and found a blog with the same problem:
>
> http://homecommunity.cisco.com/t5/Wireless-Routers/Received-response-from-host-router-IP-address-with-invalid/td-p/405931
>
>
> I went to CISCO to determine what the resolution was.
> 1. Live Chat support informed me that Linksys was only supported under
> Windows and that I could call live support at 1-800-326-7114.
> 2. Live support made be perform rather silly tests under Windows. Then
> passed me to a supervisor.
> 3. The Supervisor could not find the above email thread on their own
> site!
>
> Linksys does not have an email address for support. And the people I
> spoke to were not savvy enough to understand the problem as described
> in the above thread.
>
> Is Linksys a known problem for Linux systems? Should it be?
>
> Are there any suggestions on how to bound the size of my message files
> other that editing avhi so that it does not issue these warning messages?
>
> I was online or on the phone to Linksys for over 3 hours. I do not
> know where they are located, but I could barely understand their
> english. It was one of the worst support experiences in my 35 years of
> system involvement!
>
> Don


Have you tried updating the firmware on the Linksys? Perhaps it is a bug
that has been fixed.



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