Possible clue to disconnection bug

I recently purchased a MN-700 and several MN-720's for use at home. I
already have a D Link 614+ with the associated NICs that works perfectly,
but I wanted to gain some of the features that the MN-700 offered in
parental control and security. At the price that I got the units, they were
a steal as well!

I've been using the system without event for the past few days and not seen
a connection problem except when I used the URL filtering. I logged into
the base station and added a single url to be filtered. I then logged out
and tried the web site that had been filtered. As expected, it was blocked.
However, all other sites were blocked as well. I then logged back into the
base station and disabled the filter to see if the connection would come
back. No luck. Then, I logged back into the base station and completely
removed the URL from the filter screen and then logged out. The connection
was restored and everything worked correctly again.

Today, I had another connection problem (relevant portion of the log is at
bottom of message). I hadn't changed any settings, but I tried logging back
into the base station to make sure everything was still as I had set it.
After logging in, I decided that verifying the settings was too much work
and decided just to reboot the base station as others had suggested. I
logged out and just for fun decided to try the connection again without
rebooting. Surprise! It works.

Looking at the log, it appears that either the port scan event or the time
sync event happened at about the same time as the connection went down. The
weird thing is that it seems as if logging onto the base station clears up
the problem.

Pablo

2004/07/24 03:22:07 ** Port Scan ** Port scanning from 64.156.47.81 detected
2004/07/25 23:09:06 DHCP Client : Request sent from 192.168.0.100 to
192.168.0.1
2004/07/26 23:18:24 192.168.2.47 login successful
2004/07/26 23:53:35 System time synchronized with 207.46.130.100
2004/07/27 01:08:51 192.168.2.47 login successful
2004/07/27 01:09:06 192.168.2.47 logout
2004/07/27 01:11:59 192.168.2.47 login successful

OK, I've made a mistake with the parental controls. It appears that I
didn't see the "Block Unspecified URLs" setting. So only the second problem
holds. When the base station disconnects, logging in to the base station
and then logging out makes it work again.

Sorry for the confusion...

Pablo

What version of the firmware are you running on the MN-700?

Pablo© wrote:

> OK, I've made a mistake with the parental controls. It appears that I
> didn't see the "Block Unspecified URLs" setting. So only the second problem
> holds. When the base station disconnects, logging in to the base station
> and then logging out makes it work again.
>
> Sorry for the confusion...
>
> Pablo
>
>