"Blocked Access"

[SARGE]

Am using a 2-Wire brand modem (built in router according to glc) with dsl. ZA keeps popping up saying it blocked access from 192.168.1.254 which is my 2-Wire router. I never got this message from ZA when using my Linksys router. A problem?

[pam123]

It looks like you need to e-mail tech support , probably at both places.
The modem/router may need a configuration change/firmware update of some sort or you need to change the version of ZA you're using.
I think something like this was happening a year or so ago and people thought they were being spammed by their routers.
The company apologized and issued a firmware update.
What I don't think likely is that the router is trying to hack your computer.

[SARGE]

Thanks. It just started this week and very annoying. The modem is only a month old.

[SARGE]

It all stopped for a week but now is doing it constantly again and driving me bonkers. ZA and my modem have updates so didn't need that. I'm thinking of switching modems and using my Linksy's router and see what gives.

[glc]

Jeez, Sarge - just tell ZA to protect you silently. Letting it alert you will just drive you nuts. The 2Wire firewall is decent, and better than any Linksys firewall that's not one of the newer SPI firewalls.

[SARGE]

Ok. The pop-ups weren't bothering me in themselves but seemed to go nuts blocking access from my router for hours at a time, quit for many days, then begin again for hours. That part is the frustrating part - the lull then the storm. If you say the 2Wire is better, I'll dance with that one.

[Urban Earth]

Can you not just put the router's IP into ZA's trusted zone? I don't know if that is a security risk though . . .

AJ

[glc]

That's a security risk - trust the router and you are trusting everything coming from it.