D-Link G604T network adaptor
The DSL-G604T is an integrated Wireless/ADSL router with 100Base-T hub from the D-Link corporation that aims to provide both wireless and wired networking capability to its users. Commonly used in both the home and office it is but one of many such tools on the market as of May 2006.
Technical details
The G604T runs MontaVista and busybox Linux which allows a degree of customisation with customised firmware. These and similar units from D-Link appear to have an issue that causes certain services to fail when using the factory provided firmware, namely the Debian package update service being interrupted due to a faulty DNS through DHCP issue at the kernel level. A v2.00B06.AU_20060728 patch was made available through their downloads section that provided some level of correction, but it was not a complete fix and the issue would resurface intermittently. When the issue was originally reported, D-Link seemed to have misunderstood that the same issue has been discovered by the Linux community at large to be common across a number of their router models and they failed to provide a complete fix across the board for all adsl router models. Removing the router and installing a different brand generally solves the issue completely.[1]
Similar models
The DSL-G624T, DSL-G664T and DSL-G684T routers are very similar to the G604T.
References
- Notes
- Review, Test Freaks