> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Gillespie [mailto:mgillespie (at) socket (dot) net [email concealed]]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 9:29 AM
> To: Alan W. Rateliff, II
> Cc: bugtraq (at) securityfocus (dot) com [email concealed]
> 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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