LinkSys router works when I restart Zone Alarm

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I have a linksys 4-port dsl router and the free version of zone
alarm...here's my issue...

When first booting my computer (win 2000) I can neither access the router or
the internet, so I shutdown zone alarm and everything works fine. I then
restart zone alarm and everything continues to work.

I tried changing the "zone" for my network card in zone alarm to "trusted"
and this only allows me to access the routher (192.168.1.1), but not the
internet.

Any idea what may be causing this?

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What linksys router do you have?

I had to flash my router BIOS in order to use Zone Alarm.

Linksys BEFSR41.


"Patrik" <rana@mts.net> wrote in message
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>
> <sales@aol.com> wrote in message
> news:r7fcc.593$%O3.564@bignews1.bellsouth.net...
> > I have a linksys 4-port dsl router and the free version of zone
> > alarm...here's my issue...
> >
> > When first booting my computer (win 2000) I can neither access the
router
> or
> > the internet, so I shutdown zone alarm and everything works fine. <snip>
>
> You must let your computer talk to the modem through ZA. Try setting the
> level to medium. In the old days ZAFree did not support ICS, which is
sort
> of what it would see a router as. [Lousy grammar, but my intentions were
> good.]
>
> PJ
>
>

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On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 09:40:16 -0500, <sales@aol.com> wrote:

> I have that same model. I flashed the most recent firmware, is there
> another step I should take?
>
> "Gary Bevans" <photobossman@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:gPmcc.165105$cx5.121349@fed1read04...
>> What linksys router do you have?
>>
>> I had to flash my router BIOS in order to use Zone Alarm.
>>
>> Linksys BEFSR41.
>>
>>
>> "Patrik" <rana@mts.net> wrote in message
>> news:YEfcc.6127$uc5.13857@news1.mts.net...
>>>
>>> <sales@aol.com> wrote in message
>>> news:r7fcc.593$%O3.564@bignews1.bellsouth.net...
>>> > I have a linksys 4-port dsl router and the free version of zone
>>> > alarm...here's my issue...
>>> >
>>> > When first booting my computer (win 2000) I can neither access the
>> router
>>> or
>>> > the internet, so I shutdown zone alarm and everything works fine.
> <snip>
>>>
>>> You must let your computer talk to the modem through ZA. Try setting
> the
>>> level to medium. In the old days ZAFree did not support ICS, which is
>> sort
>>> of what it would see a router as. [Lousy grammar, but my intentions were
>>> good.]
>>>
>>> PJ
>>>
>>>
>>
>>

Hi

Do you have the LAN Subnet (192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0) in the Trusted zone
and is that zone set to Medium? When you first boot the PC does it get a
valid IP address or a 169.x.x.x IP?

Regards

Bill

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What about this tidbit from ZoneAlarm?

"You may have started ZoneAlarm manually with an already live connection to
the Internet. Try closing down all browser windows, then restart the
application."

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So I removed the option "Load ZoneAlarm at startup" and placed a shortcut in
my "Startup" folder and everything works as should.


<sales@aol.com> wrote in message
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> What about this tidbit from ZoneAlarm?
>
> "You may have started ZoneAlarm manually with an already live connection
to
> the Internet. Try closing down all browser windows, then restart the
> application."
>
>