Verwijderd wijst ons erop dat Linksys nieuwe firmware heeft uitgebracht voor de zevende revisie van zijn WRT54G-router. Om erachter te komen uit welke revisie de router afkomstig is, check je de onderkant van de router. De nieuwebakken firmware is voorzien van versienummer 7.00.4 en kan door te klikken op deze link gedownload worden als zip-bestand. Met de komst van versie 7.00.4 worden een groot aantal kinderziektes uit de zevende revisie van de WRT54G-router gehaald, waaronder bugfixes voor het gebruik van BitTorrent en verbeteringen met betrekking tot port forwarding. De complete lijst met veranderingen staat hieronder gepubliceerd:
Firmware 7.00.4[break]
- Resolves interoperability issue with WAP54G and WRE54G in WPA-PSK mode.
- Resolves intermittent reboot issue when BitTorrent is running when UPnP is enabled on the router.
- Resolves wireless data rate performance issues.
- Resolves issue with router assigns declined IP address to LAN host.
- Resolves issue with QoS module algorithm.
- Resolves reboot issue if fragmentation threshold is set to value less than 1500.
- Resolves issue with wireless MAC filtering configuration GUI.
- Resolves issue with saving RADIUS passphrase.
- Resolves display problems in routing policy configuration GUI.
- Resolves issue of RIP request packets not being sent out after switching to router mode.
- Resolves issue of logging the same event more than once when log function is enabled.
- Resolves issue of unexpected clearing of log when user stops and closes traceroute.
- Resolves issue of not being able to accessing some configuration settings after changing password.
- Resolves issues with incorrect beacon interval acceptable range and beacon packets not being sent out on some particular settings.
- Corrects "Port Range Forward" policies validation.
- Fixes problem of not storing DNS address(es) correctly if static DNS address(es) is/are used.
- For security purpose, "Clone Your PC's MAC" functionality is no longer available if user accesses router remotely.
- Resolves issue of displaying incorrect HTTPS certificate message.
- Fixes problem in QoS configuration validation.
- Fixes incorrect supported rates in beacon packets when wireless mode is set to 'mixed'.
- Resolves reboot issue with setting beacon interval to value greater than 5000.
- Corrects ARP exchange behavior on WAN interface (DHCP mode) after obtaining IP address via DHCP.
- Corrects PPTP connection behavior when PPTP mode is set to "on-demand" mode.
- Resolved issue with not being able to set UPnP policy with port number less than 1024.
- Fixes problem of DMZ feature not functioning properly.
- Resolves issue with not showing the most up-to-date connection status on WAN interface in MS Windows XP via UPnP.
- Resolves issue with LAN host intermittently not being able to obtain IP address from router via DHCP when DHCP server is enabled.
- Resolves issue with IP address assignment via DHCP on some particular devices.
- Corrects DHCP protocol stack behavior when switching from PPPoE mode to DHCP mode.
- Corrects "Access Restriction" behavior when system time is not available.
- Resolves issue of not trying alternative DNS if the preferred DNS does not respond.