hello everyone. lately i have been noticing a strange issue with my linksys router. my bandwisth will slow down to a crawl, and usually totally crash, making me have to reset the router by physically pulling and plugging back in the power cable.

i have tried to figure out what is causing this, but am not seeing anything that unusual in the logs except a rouge packet of some sort. i always see it pop uo right before the crashes start.

according the router, it is coming from ip address 0.0.0.0

my question is, how is this possible?

i have been hearing about a flaw in linksys routers that is majorly affecting broadband users, namely comcast (same isp that i am currently on) that script kiddies use to crash random routers on the network. supposedly they use this script to send out a certain flawed packet that the linksys routers can not understand, causing them to crash. perhaps this is what i am being hit with, or is this all just urban legend?

could be that my router is just on its last limbs i suppose =)