Month: June 2013

It’s always useful to get your network gear to send their logs somewhere else in case they die, reboot, or go on fire. In a domestic setting this can be very useful if you have some problems with the stability of your link. However, in the case of the X3500, Linksys’s knowledge base says

11.Does the X3500 support transmission of log information to a log server?

No, the Linksys X3500 does not support transmission of log information to a log server.

Welllll…. that’s kind of true, in that there’s no option to enable it, so I suppose it’s not supported. However, it can be done. Linksys would probably say that this will invalidate your warranty, set your hair on fire and poison the groundwater, but a big fat ‘muh’ to them.

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The Linksys X3500 is, as the manufacturer would have it, a very capable device indeed. I won’t bore you with the details because, if you’re reading this, you’ve probably already got one. If that’s the case, you’ll know that (like so much consumer networking kit) the management interface leaves a great deal to be desired: it’s buggy, slow, unreliable, and has a penchant for dropping your connection when you make changes. What’s more, Linksys hasn’t provided updated firmware for over six months, and for such a new device that’s kind of worrying. But that’s a rant for another day.

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