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Chris Day | 14 Mar 2005 01:56
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[NEW FIRMWARE RELEASE] DSE ADSL Routers (XH7916, XH1149, XH1169, XH1173 & XH1175) - Rel10v1

Just a short note to advise new firmware has been released for the following
DSE ADSL Routers:

* XH7916 - DSE ADSL Router UTP & USB	(PTC 272/02/024)
* XH1149 - DSE ADSL Router UTP & USB	(PTC 272/03/005)
* XH1169 - DSE ADSL Router UTP & USB	(PTC 272/04/012)
* XH1173 - DSE ADSL Router UTP 1x LAN	(PTC 272/04/035)
* XH1175 - DSE ADSL Router UTP 4x LAN	(PTC 272/04/037)

This major update adds further refinements to the quick setup screens along
with advanced firewall features:
- Stateful Packet Inspection (IP Spoofing, Ping Of Death, Lan & Reassembly
Attacks, SYN Flooding, Etc)
- Hacker Log
- Service Filtering (Ping, Telnet, FTP, DNS, IKE, RIP & DHCP)
- Support for Inbound & Outbound firewall policy rules (IP, Service & Time
Groups).

To download the new firmware, please visit www.dse.co.nz and enter your model
number (XH7916, XH1149, XH1169, Etc) into the search field. When the search
results screen appears, select the 'DSE Routers' support link and follow your
nose :-)

Please note this is a major firmware update and for many customers will
require product disassembly (XH7916, XH1149 & XH1169 & XH1173). Other upgrade
conditions or restrictions may also apply. In all instances, we urge customers
to read the instructions...
http://www.dse.co.nz/isroot/dse/support/DSEROUTER-FW-Readme.pdf
...and note down their current settings before attempting the upgrade
procedure.
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Joel Wiramu Pauling | 1 Mar 2005 22:34
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New Zealand Patent Act... Say no to software patents! Public submissions close march 11

First off apologies for the off topic post... but I think this is
important enough.

The New Zealand patent act is currently in the final stages of draft,
public submissions.

The new patent act is an overhaul of the original 1953 act. Currently
neither Australian nor NZ offer any exclusions in regards to software.
This is a highly topical issue, and one may only look to the amount of
disgust and protest in the EU to realise that software patents are
indeed a very bad economic, legal, and social consequence for a
society. 

Being that NZ is currently in the middle of reviewing it's legislation
and that there is no specific exemption applying to software patents
currently. (I.e software patents do and can in the future be protected
in NZ, forcing any competing expressions of those idea's to either
licence, or die in a court battle), it is the right time to write to
take some action. 

Any publicity generated, encouraging a debate over the inappropriateness
of applying Patent law and protections to software is welcomed. 

Copyright and Trade secret law, should be more than enough initial
protection for software companies, allowing them to monopolise and
prohibit specific implementations and expressions of ideas, but not the
idea's themselves as that's like saying a poet says the 'river runs
cold' in prose, and that poet now has monopoly over the idea of rivers
being cold. Arguably any software which is sufficiently complicated to
the point where it is not drawing on obvious FACT's of language and
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Dave - Dave.net.nz | 1 Mar 2005 22:56
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Re: New Zealand Patent Act... Say no to software patents! Public submissions close march 11

Joel Wiramu Pauling wrote:

>First off apologies for the off topic post... but I think this is
>important enough.
>  
>

heh, I have some viagra that some here may be interested in, I think 
that this is an important enough issue... lol
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Tortise | 1 Mar 2005 23:08
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Re: New Zealand Patent Act... Say no to software patents! Publicsubmissions close march 11

Hey thanks for your kewl post Joel

With respect, there is another side to this.

Filing patents gives you a little more bargaining power with the big boys.

I believe New Zealand dearly needs some more export revenue and a catch up on foreign standards of living
that we used to enjoy.

Patents is one way to secure this with our good home grown kiwi ingenuity.

We have patents pending.

For example see out drag and drop software licensing system at http://www.cheqsoft.com/downloads/DragnDropLicensingCheqSoft.com.wmv

Also http://www.cheqsoft.com/mathsown.html

Should we be stopped with our initiatives?  I don't think so, as in the end you benefit.  (We might one day pay a
lot of tax
here....etc)

Software patents are an opportunity you and I share.  Why kill that?  What sort of New Zealand do you want?

I respectfully suggest you see the opportunity this creates, embrace it, start writing and start filing!

Kind regards
David Hingston MB ChB MBA
Director
Chequers Software Ltd
Wellington, New Zealand.
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Dan Langille | 1 Mar 2005 23:40
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recent off topic post

It's been dealt with. No further traffic necessary.
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Nathaniel D. | 1 Mar 2005 23:45
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Re: New Zealand Patent Act... Say no to software patents! Publicsubmissions close march 11

I think this is a perfect example of why patents on software shouldn't
be allowed. Any competent developer could implement this into a
licensing system within minutes. Why does it deserve a patent?

Regards,
Nathaniel

Tortise wrote:

>Hey thanks for your kewl post Joel
>
>With respect, there is another side to this.
>
>Filing patents gives you a little more bargaining power with the big boys.
>
>I believe New Zealand dearly needs some more export revenue and a catch up on foreign standards of living
that we used to enjoy.
>
>Patents is one way to secure this with our good home grown kiwi ingenuity.
>
>We have patents pending.
>
>For example see out drag and drop software licensing system at http://www.cheqsoft.com/downloads/DragnDropLicensingCheqSoft.com.wmv
>
>Also http://www.cheqsoft.com/mathsown.html
>
>Should we be stopped with our initiatives?  I don't think so, as in the end you benefit.  (We might one day pay a
lot of tax
>here....etc)
>
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John Zoetebier | 2 Mar 2005 03:59
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USR 9105 ADSL link problem

Sometimes after a soft reboot of USR 9105 the modem cannot get an ADSL link 
anymore.
I can see this as the ADSL light keeps on flashing, waits a few seconds and 
than starts flashing again.
Even after 10 minutes there is no ADSL link.
After power off/on modem immediately gets ADSL link.
I have had this a several times, so it cannot be just an accident.
Can someone confirm this issue with USR 9105 ?

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Joel Wiramu Pauling | 2 Mar 2005 05:55
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Query about routers with embeeded OSS components

Does anyone have a complete list of adsl routers which use OSS firmware,
be it as a firewall or other, that work in NZ, or are supported by OSS
pppoatm stacks? 

I have an old rta020 which is well past it's time, and have been
wondering if there are any suggestions...

Ideally I would like a card that can assign the external IP to an OS
level interface. Apparently their is an internal belan card that does
this and works with the various pppoAtm stacks, has anyone had
experience with these in NZ?

Kind regards

Joel W

P.s apologies for the previous off topic post. If you wish to discuss
that topic further I would be very interested in hearing from you in
private.

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leety | 2 Mar 2005 06:53
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Re: Query about routers with embeeded OSS components

I don't know of any that fulfill your first criteria but
there are a number of ways to get the IP to an OS level
interface as has been discused before (search the archives).
Personally I would recommend something in the Alcatel
external router range (530 etc) but there are other options.

For internal devices, these tend to need drivers and as such
are probably not such good idea for OSS IMHO...

> Does anyone have a complete list of adsl routers which use
> OSS firmware, be it as a firewall or other, that work in
> NZ, or are supported by OSS pppoatm stacks?
>
> I have an old rta020 which is well past it's time, and
> have been wondering if there are any suggestions...
>
> Ideally I would like a card that can assign the external
> IP to an OS level interface. Apparently their is an
> internal belan card that does this and works with the
> various pppoAtm stacks, has anyone had experience with
> these in NZ?
>
> Kind regards
>
>
> Joel W
>
>
> P.s apologies for the previous off topic post. If you wish
> to discuss that topic further I would be very interested
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Mark Farnell | 4 Mar 2005 20:56
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zone alarm and FC2 iptable software firewall bypassed when using ADSL modem

I used to have a dial-up connection for my dual boot (Win98 and Fedora Core 
2) computer and both Zone alarm and iptables functioned correctly and pased 
all the stealth-mode tests from ShieldUP in
http://www.grc.com
However when I recently switched to ADSL using the DSE D-link DSL-302G modem 
supplied by my ISP (for free), both Zone Alarm and iptables failed the 
Shield-UP tests as my computer changes its behaviour, it start responding to 
TCP pockets and ICMP echo-requests.  Also, the ports are not "stealthed".  
No-matter how I've change the rules in /etc/sysconfig/iptables, for example: 
blocking icmp echo-replies

-A OUTPUT -p icmp --icmp-type echo-reply -j DROP

The computer still did not change its behaviour and still replying to ICMP 
echo requests.

I think it is because the firewall in the modem is not as secure as the 
rules in my computer and since my computer connect to the modem by an 
ethernet cable, therefore data from the modem is considered as intranet 
rather than internet, and therefore these data from the modem could bypass 
the firewall.  Am I correct?

Now, how can I make data went through the modem pass through the software 
firewall in my computer (as in the dial-up connection) again?

Thanks!

Mark

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