Linksys Knowledge Base on All About Jake

WLanExpert

Fri, 03 Nov 2006 15:15:05 +0000

A note from Jake#

A note from Jake:

I didn’t write this program. I don’t know who wrote this program, but I still get lots of eMail about it. Dennis Rex sent me this program a while back. He informed me that the author no longer wanted to host it, and that it would disappear off the internet otherwise.

Hence its hosted here. I cannot really help you with this, for several reasons. First, I don’t run Win9x. This program need Win9x to run. Second, I don’t have a Linksys client card. I use an old-style Lucent WaveLAN card (now called Orinoco, but mine’s circa 1999-2000, and still says Lucent).

MTU and PPPoE

Fri, 03 Nov 2006 14:45:11 +0000

MTU and PPPoE#

Are you using a LinkSys router, running DSL PPPoE and having trouble serving *some* clients on ftp, http, smtp, IRC-DCC, VNC or anything else requiring forwarded ports? Read on for a very possible cure…

The easiest solution is to set the server PC to an MTU of 1492. If this doesn’t work, try less (1362 seems to be another PPPoE value). If an MTU of 200 doesn’t work, look elsewhere for the problem.

Setting up an FTP Server

Fri, 03 Nov 2006 14:41:48 +0000

Setting up BulletProof FTP#

I’m sure that BulletProof FTP 2.15 is probably so old now that no one even uses it. However, the process is the same for most FTP servers. The settings windows (or configuration files) might be a bit different, but the concept is the same.

Setting up and FTP server behind the router takes a bit of configuring.

FTP Clients & Servers

Fri, 03 Nov 2006 14:36:48 +0000

FTP Clients and Servers#

Here is why it is such a pain to get any Network Address Translator (NAT) routing device like the LinkSys to run FTP – either as a client or server.

I hope you’re already aware what a client and a server are. For FTP…

Clients can be programs such as MSIE, Netscape, WS_FTP, CuteFTP, BPFTP, FlashFTP, ftp commandline, etc. Servers are programs such as ftpd, wu-ftpd, BPFTPServer(G6ftp), Serv-U, IIS, etc.

BEFW11S4 Firmware v1.39.2

Thu, 02 Nov 2006 00:13:50 +0000

New Features in 1.39.2#

I learned quite a bit of information on a BEFSR41 news site at http://www.hansenonline.net/Networking/LinksysNews.html by a Mr. Lars M. Hansen. The BEFSR41 is similar to the BEFW11S4 but without the wireless features. The description of the new features below is from this site. Thanks to Halfton on alt.internet.wireless for pointing this out. I originally mistook this information for BEFW11S4 info but it is not. The features are similar, but the firmware and firmware versions are not.