Official E4200 Firmware (v1.0.04 (Build 11)) Feedback Thread

[Cisco disappoints]

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jsutterfield wrote:

Yes, Tomato supports USB printers on most builds.  Particularly the Toastman build supports printers.  See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato_firmware#Feature_comparison

Jason S

Thanks Jason. I don't understand everything on that wiki page I'm afraid. Currently I have the following connected to my e4200;

- Hp printer via USB (842C an older model)

- Mybooklive 2TB harddrive via ethernet cable

- numerous wireless laptops & phones

In your view would Tomato be an acceptable choice for me? It seems silly to me to stick with the Linksys firmware when Tomato has such a good reputation.

Is there any way BACK to the linksys firmware if Tomato doesn't meet my needs?

[counsil]

This has already been discussed in this thread.  You might read back a few or more pages.

Basically Safari and IE Tester (using 5.x) works with https://

[northbanker]

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your.spam.here.thx wrote:

yes same thing:
enabling https administration disables any way to acces the router.

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Wow, that's good to know.  I'm just about to finally get my hands on a V1 and I hope I remember leave remote admin as http-only!

Is that something that used to work in 1.0.03 or before, and it just got broken in 1.0.04??

[counsil]

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northbanker wrote:

Is that something that used to work in 1.0.03 or before, and it just got broken in 1.0.04??

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Yes.

[northbanker]

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northbanker wrote:

Wow, that's good to know.  I'm just about to finally get my hands on a V1 and I hope I remember leave remote admin as http-only!

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I just re-read the prior post... that this bug is for LOCAL mgmt, rather than remote mgmt.  That's good b/c I usually leave HTTP on for local, and go HTTPS-only for remote.  Presumably 1.0.04 is fine with that scenario.

[your.spam.here.thx]

SSL (https)  used to work under 1.0.01. 
but meanwhile i have more issues.

About every 24-48 hours  my machines which are connected to the router *by wire* don't get access to the internet.

Internet over *wireless works*. This affects only the wired ones. The Router itself is accessible by wire, but no route to the outside world.

I have to hard-reset the router then manually 1-2 times to make it work again. But this crashes DHCP reservation, if cables are plugged in, during router bootprocess.

Downgrading Firmware  is no solution, since disabling WPS is only included in 10.0.04. And WPS is a very serious security issue.

I now resolved all that problems, which already have cost me a lot of time, with a replacement by a NETGEAR router.

But not much better there..

I've upgraded the NETGEAR Firmware and set it up and - not again - that piece of  ***** lets me in without admin password.

Had to downgrade the firmware there..

Seems that all major enterprises aren't capable of providing working soft- / hardware. Or maybe this is wanted by opening sniffing holes, backdoors everywhere. Who knows.

[kamal_k_joshi]

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counsil wrote:

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northbanker wrote:

Is that something that used to work in 1.0.03 or before, and it just got broken in 1.0.04??

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Yes.

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Note that the access via HTTPS does NOT work even with 1.0.03 firmware and using IE, Firefox, Opera browsers.

It does however works when using Safari browser. That is the only browser that is currently known to work with HTTPS access 9even for verson 1.0.03).

Just to add, older versions of browsers still work fine to access via HTTPS. If you were to install an older version of Firefox browser, for example, the HTTPS access will work correctly.

It seems it has to do with the browser upgrades that have happened over the last several months, since installing an older version of the same browser makes the HTTPS work again (with the same firmware version)..

[your.spam.here.thx]

Oh yeah, using IE 5.5 is certainly a NO good idea.

I think i we don't have to discuss why...

And safari. Does this mean testing has been done only with a safari browser ?

Or was there no testing at all before release ?

btw. SSL is designed to be plattform independent.

[kamal_k_joshi]

HTTPS access does NOT work evern with older firmware against newer browsers.

The point is, older or newer firmware does NOT matter, the HTTPS currently is only known to work with either a littlle older versions of IE and Firefox or the current version of Safari.

[neilpalmer400]

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your.spam.here.thx wrote:

SSL (https)  used to work under 1.0.01. 
but meanwhile i have more issues.

About every 24-48 hours  my machines which are connected to the router *by wire* don't get access to the internet.

Internet over *wireless works*. This affects only the wired ones. The Router itself is accessible by wire, but no route to the outside world.

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Are you sure the access to the Internet is actually bloclked from the wired connected PC (did you try something like 'tracert 8.8.8.8' to see if you actually have a route to the Internet), OR are you seeing what I've observed on occasion - the router stops providing DNS services to the wired attached PC?  One way around that is to hardcode a few DNS servers for the wired interface network connection  (LAN connection, TCP/IP properties) on the PC (for example  4.2.2.4   8.8.8.8) instead of using the router itself (192.168.1.1 or whatever your router's LAN IP address is - which is the default DNS server address providd by the router's DHCP).