RE: Cisco Workaround

["Todd Mitchell - lists" <lists () ciphin com>]

| As to support, I heard an interesting conspiracy
| theory related to Cisco support and the IOS flaw:
| 
| The theory is that Cisco had far to many IOS versions
| that they support in the field and in order to reduce
| support costs they "conveniently" found this flaw with
| the IOS software and used it to propel an upgrade of
| all IOS system. Thus reducing the overall costs of
| support and saving Cisco a large amount of $$$$$.
| 
| I have found it strange that such an easy and
| dangerous flaw has not given Cisco a black eye on
| this. Micro$oft constantly is getting beaten for less
| dangerous flaws in their OS and other softwares, but
| Cisco actually has gotten praise for having found and
| published the flaws details [as limited as those
| details were].
| 
| What do you think?

Interesting theory; however way to risky from a business point of view.
The bean counters might be happy now that they only have to support x
versions of IOS & in turn are saving x dollars.  But keep in mind the
negative ramifications from a massive security alert are/were unknown
and I doubt Cisco would risk their reputation or whatever to bring
everyone onto the same wave length just to save a few pennies.

Todd

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| 
| Jac
| 
| 
| "I'm not paranoid, everyone is out to get me."
| 
| --- stephane nasdrovisky
| <stephane.nasdrovisky () uniway be> wrote:
| >
| > As far as this particular issue is concerned, Cisco
| > do provide a high quality of
| > support to its customers. What they don't provide is
| > free training for lazy
| > network administrators. If you're unable to apply
| > the IOS patch they freely
| > provide to any administrator who asks for it (as
| > stated in the advisory), why
| > would you complain and waste anybody's time?
| >
| >
| > > As for Wesley, don't you believe that cisco should
| > be responsible on providing
| > > a high quality of support to its customers since
| > they paid $$$$$$$$$$$$$
| >
| >
| >
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