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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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Linksys Router and Bonjour Services

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