30 Sep
2014
30 Sep
'14
1:53 p.m.
Hi all,
I have the above mentioned device and have been using it
for a number of years to access the console ports on several
of my vintage computers. It also communicates with the
serial ports on a couple of older UPSs that I still have in
service. It has worked flawlessly up until a couple of
months ago. At that time, I replaced my old primary router
with a new one. This new router is an ASUS and runs an ASUS
specific version of WRT. This new router seems to broadcast
a number of packet types that the IP stack on the Annex was
not designed to handle. The buffers containing these packets
appear to be leaked and the memory loss eventually causes the
Annex to hang hard. This happens about every 40 hours. A
power cycle will bring it back. A bit of googling seems to
indicate that I am running the latest official firmware (from
1995?). I can't seem to find any web discussion of the Annex
more recent than 2004. I wondered whether anyone here might
know of some trick or some small remaining community of users
of the Annex. I know that it has something to do with traffic
from the new router because if I isolate it on a subnet
by
itself it still runs fine with no memory loss.
Thanks,
Bill S.