I actually wish I had sent that reply a little later last night...answer may have been different regarding my experience with Billion ! ;-)
I encountered what turns out to be a not uncommon problem with firewall config in my current router, the BiPAC 7402NX (maybe NOX, can't recall and am at work)
I was trying to add an additional packet filtering rule via the web admin page. When I would define and attempt to "add", the page would refresh, as expected and all rules were gone..which was not expected. Turns out this is a known problem.
It was well past midnight and a "school" day, so after a few failed attempts, I eventually got back to the previous state and went to bed. My firewall setting is to deny everything in all directions, unless specifically permitted, so loss of these rules cuts off the Internet. With wife and kids who "need" the internet or their world will stop, previous functionality at least, was required.
Tonight is firmware checking/updating and maybe packet-filter rewrite night.
However, I will say that this is the only problem I have had with Billions and I still have my previous ones in the cupboard, working fine, as I have upgraded due to increased functionality (ADSL to ADSL2, Add VOIP, Add Wireless etc) rather than hardware failure.
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Tim Connors
<tconnors@rather.puzzling.org> wrote:
On Wed, 31 Oct 2012, Terry Duell wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:48:21 +1100, Andrew Mather <
mathera@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I have always had pretty good results from Billion equipment. I use the
> > 7404 range, which may be a bit expensive, but they tend to be good at
> > holding a connection and they are stable.
> >
> > I have had less than stellar experiences with a couple of Netgear routers
> > and WAPs over the years, although their ProSafe switches (the ones with
> > the blue steel cases) have been fine.
>
> Thanks for your response.
range?). I bought it specifically because the marketing literature
mentioned "watchdog timer". If the marketing literature mentions things
like that, then surely it was designed by actual engineers without the
marketing department's help, right? Well, it turned out it needed it.
And it doesn't always work (as opposed to my older netcomm modem that
needed it and didn't have it).
It's a linux machine under the hood, with not much memory and no swap.
And the watchdog timer is probably just a shell script or its monitoring
the wrong thing (perhaps not the ppp link?)
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