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Belkin F5D7230-4 v4000 always crashes on multicast

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zaqplm   04-16-2006 at 06:30:41 AM

I have purchased a unit of F5D7230-4 v4000 hardware yesterday. The configuration went fine and easy.

However, when I plug 4 wired PCs to the LAN ports, the router will reboot (after about 30 seconds) and four amber lights are shown. After that all PCs displayed a 10Mbps connection instead of 100Mbps. From there onwards, no data can be sent/received anymore. 8O

Curious to find out further, I setup NetIQ's Chariot to send some packets over. The router did not crash until I started the multicast testing. Multicasting one packet to IP 224.0.0.0 will immediately crash the router and it's 100% reproducible everytime. I updated to latest firmware F5D7230V4_UK_6.00.21.bin and it's still crashes.

I guess all Windows computers does multicast once a while and that's the main reason router crashes. But Belkin hardware can't handle multicast even in small amounts?

Does anyone have this strange behaviour in their Belkin hardware?

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blue68f100   04-17-2006 at 04:02:21 AM
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What you have is an added feature of all BELKIN products. Crashes, hangs .... I haven't found one thats work right yet.

Take it back a get something else.

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