[BUG] Tribes V crashes my router!?!

Anytime I try to play TV online it crashes my router which entails me losing my connection and having to reset :(

This is the router I have:

http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process? Merchant_Id=&Product_Id=113464


anyone have any ideas on fixing this problem?

Damn thats a suck ass problem. Oribital told me in Tribes 1 that he had T:V but it crashed his comp and destroyed some files. He had to reformat. Anyone know what could be causing these probs?

duno but my router crashes more frequently now that I've been playing T:V

I would file this under unlikely... since the router is a piece of hardware and tribes doesn't do anything outside the bounds of TCP/IP protocols.

haha, I've got the same problem, also w/ a belkin router, I've got a thread in General Discussion about it

my router > your router, because it doesn't need the help of T:V to crash



vav

Not a T:V bug necessarily, more a router bug. It happens in America's Army too :(

This is my post in GD
So I have a cheap Belkin router (stfu I got a good deal on it at the time so thats really the only reason I have it) model F5D5230-4.

I have an issue where everytime either T:V or America's Army is run the router stops responding (to an extent). This happens on multiple machines, multiple OS's, and multiple NIC cards from diff manufacturers.

It only happens when initially checking/refreshing the server list. The router will no longer respond to pings, it cannot be logged into. My DSL modem's activity ceases (although it holds sync) and I cannot ping outside the gateway. However, I can still ping other machines over the network and get a response.

I have the most recent firmware but have yet to find ANYWHERE that hosts old firmware. Yes, I've reflashed it w/ the most recent anyway.

The issue does NOT occur if I keep my DSL modem disconnected from the router (ie it is a response from the master server that is causing the DoS on my router). In other words I can host a local game, disconnect the DSL modem and still refresh w/ no problems.

Any ideas, I'm up for anything at this point.

I would file this under unlikely... since the router is a piece of hardware and tribes doesn't do anything outside the bounds of TCP/IP protocols.


Its definately TV and the router (more so the router). Sometimes I can get a server list, other times it just brings down the whole network, god I need a fix for this.

Not a T:V bug necessarily, more a router bug. It happens in America's Army too :(

This is my post in GD



Could not find your post in there, have you figured anything out as far as fixing it?

Hmm, my router has never crashed. Course it's a Linksys.

Zyxel here, works fine so far.

The only fix Ive found so far involves setting the DMZ address to match your assigned IP. This does not work for me. Someone else suggested it may be a directx issue?

directx, rofl

No I haven't found a fix for it. I'm desperately looking for an older firmware I can reflash it with.

Has this fix worked for anyone?

http://search.belkin.com/cgi-bin/MsmGo.exe?grab_id=55&EXTRA_ARG=&CFGNAME=MssFind%2Ecfg&host_id=42&page_id=8717056&query=router+crash+americ as+army%2A&hiword=army%2A+ROUTED+AME RICA+AMERICAST+ROUTE+AMER ICAN+americas+router+ROUT ERS+crash+CRASHES+CRASHIN G+ROUTES+


It did not work for me, but what about just disabling the firewall altogether? Waiting on my roommate to leave so I can start effing with it again....

The lesson is, don't buy a belkin router.... :p

Honestly, I think you'll probably have more luck with Belkin's tech support. Also, you might try grabbing a packet dump on either side of the router (I know, you probably don't know how to do this, and it would take way to long to explain how in this response...) to see exactly what is going on.

From what I see in this thread (and the linked belkin tech support page) it's probably a problem with how Belkin handles NAT routing. (NAT = Network Address Translation, it changes your tcp/ip packets IP address from your computers 192.168.x.x address, to your routers valid Internet IP address, and it probably freaks out when T:V hits it. :p)

The lesson is, don't buy a belkin router.... :p

Honestly, I think you'll probably have more luck with Belkin's tech support. Also, you might try grabbing a packet dump on either side of the router (I know, you probably don't know how to do this, and it would take way to long to explain how in this response...) to see exactly what is going on.

From what I see in this thread (and the linked belkin tech support page) it's probably a problem with how Belkin handles NAT routing. (NAT = Network Address Translation, it changes your tcp/ip packets IP address from your computers 192.168.x.x address, to your routers valid Internet IP address, and it probably freaks out when T:V hits it. :p)


someone suggested turning the Firewall and NAT off within the router. I did that and afterwards my connection would not work at all, oh well :(

I have the same router and same problems you explained.Tried all the same shazbot to fix with and other things to boot.