Belkin F5D7230-4 v4000 always crashes on multicast

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.

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?

You might want to check Belkin's support channels for this.
Alternatively, you might want to check the general networking newsgroups as
well.

This group is really meant for the support of microsoft broadband networking
hardware.

--
Gary Tsang
Microsoft MVP - Windows XP Shell/User
http://www.microsoft.com/mvp


"Nicky" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>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.
>
> 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?
>

i have the same problem too.
i don't know about the multicast thing, but my belkin F5D7230-4 v4000
also hangs periodically with amber light indication.
i'm trying to source out the problem, but i'm no tech genius, so it's
nothing's come up yet. any luck in solving your issue?