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The Link of Doom
Mar. 8th, 2006 03:13 amI've noticed a very odd problem with my broadband connection. Normally it works fine, but certain BBC web pages (eg. Radio 4 listen again pages ( cut to prevent accidental access )) can crash my cable modem. You just need to follow the Link of Doom and bang goes your network. Fortunately it reboots and is back in a minute.
I can understand flaky signal levels leading to random crashes (I've had those in the past), but what can the cable modem have against those BBC web sites? The cable modem is just a bridge between my router and NTL's UBR at the physical (MAC) layer, so doesn’t look inside the IP packets to see where they are coming from. If it doesn't look, how can it be offended?
It looks like it's not just me. Other people with my model cable modem (Motorola SB4100) and 10Mbps NIC started seeing this recently.
This is a bit annoying, but mainly just really puzzling.
I can understand flaky signal levels leading to random crashes (I've had those in the past), but what can the cable modem have against those BBC web sites? The cable modem is just a bridge between my router and NTL's UBR at the physical (MAC) layer, so doesn’t look inside the IP packets to see where they are coming from. If it doesn't look, how can it be offended?
It looks like it's not just me. Other people with my model cable modem (Motorola SB4100) and 10Mbps NIC started seeing this recently.
This is a bit annoying, but mainly just really puzzling.
