Router help please - Linksys Windows only?

don fisher hdf3 at comcast.net
Sat Feb 4 23:55:15 UTC 2012



On 02/04/12 16:48, Larry wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
Larry,

Yes. The firmware is the current version and build number.

Thanks,
Don



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