MSN connection crashing router

[BigGator]

OK.. maybe I'm insane - but I've verified this with at least one other person with the same hardware.

Firewall is a Netgear FVS124G running latest firmware.

Turning on Trillian Astra (tested as of build 112 - will test 113 later tonight) is fine, turning on one service at a time works fine - until enabling MSN.. then the firewall goes completely unresponsive and has to be rebooted. This has been going on for a week or two for myself and one other person - we finally narrowed it down to Trillian, and further to just the MSN connection.

Any idea what could be happening in the initial connection to MSN that could freak out a firewall and cause it to just die?

[DiamondNRG]

Did you do anything odd with your firewall to block Internet Explorer at all?

[WestMc002]

I had the same Problem, same Netgear Firewall, Firmware V1.1.48
Same Problem also with Build 113

[agnostic-stigma]

Had or have ? Had implies you fixed the issue. :)

[WestMc002]

Sorry....
i mean have...
For my Vista and Windows 2008 Server PC´s it works to check the Box "Force this connection to tunnel trought the HTTP gateway"
At my Windows 7 RC PC my FVS124G dont crash when i check the Box and start Trillian Astra Build 113, but MSN disconnect and connect always in time intervals of 1 minutes.
Sorry for my bad English :)

[BigGator]

Update.. it seems that the native MSN client also crashes the router.. but my other tester also managed to crash the router with Trillian on, but MSN disabled.

[BigGator]

Did you do anything odd with your firewall to block Internet Explorer at all?

And no.. nothing blocked outbound.

[kwk]

If native MSN crashes it then hopefully the router manufacturer will release a patch to the firmware.