From: TheTenorXYZ@attXYZ.net   
      
   I have posted previously about outgoing PPTP not working on my new Linksys   
   WRT54G router. This is revision 1.1 and has the Cisco logo on the front of   
   the case as well.   
      
   Amazingly, I managed (after several e-mail exchanges) to talk to a live   
   person in tech support (such as it is). It's hard for me to believe, but   
   apparently they never tested the PPTP Pass-Through checkbox functionality   
   which allows passing TCP protocol 47 packets in through the firewall. They   
   know of the problem and hope to have a firmware update with a month (or so).   
      
      
   How does a company (Linksys or Cicso) release something that hasn't passed   
   basic functionality testing? I consider anything that is a checkbox enabled   
   feature to be basic functionality.   
   Now I'm sitting with two WRT54G routers (one for the office, one for the   
   remote) that I can't use until they decide it's time to actually release a   
   firmware fix.   
      
   In addition, the e-mail support didn't offer anything of use to me. They   
   even told me to forward "Port 47" in the port forwarding setup!! Amazing! If   
   they're reading from a script, whoever wrote the script is also clueless! At   
   least they could have leveled with me and indicated that they knew of a   
   problem and were working on it!   
      
      
   Guess I'll be looking at other routers to be recommending to my clients.   
      
   Wes   
      
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