Linksys Router and Bonjour Services

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Linksys Router and Bonjour Services

Does anyone have any experience getting Bonjour services working with a Linksys router. I've got a Linksys Etherfast router (BEFSR41) serving two Tiger Macs, and one Leopard Mac. I can manually connect from any computer to another computer (Go -> Connect to Server) and transfer files. However, bonjour services such as iChat, iPhoto Sharing, and iTunes do not work.

I found out that when I go to the routing tab on the router, and save the settings, as the router powers up and powers down some contacts will quickly appear and disappear in my iChat Bonjour contact list on all of the computers on the network, but even if I quickly click and try to IM with one of them, nothing gets through.

Any thoughts on getting this working?

2.8GHz iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.5)

Posted on Jan 18, 2009 3:52 PM

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Answer 1

Tim Haigh

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Jan 19, 2009 7:20 AM in response to siriusfox

I used a linksys wrt54g with 3rd party software for the longest time and bonjour worked perfectly.

I would check in the web UI of your router to make sure setting such as 'filter multicast" is disabled as in this example.

Also try setting your mac's built in application firewall to allow all connections.

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siriusfox Author

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Jan 19, 2009 8:56 AM in response to Tim Haigh

That was already disabled, no luck.

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siriusfox Author

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May 8, 2009 5:39 PM in response to siriusfox

Turns out that Linksys routers just suck. I brought in a old 100Base-T Netgear switch, and plugged everything into that, with one lead out to the router, and BLAM fixed.

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