Re: Warning: Cisco RW community backdoor.

[Adrian Chadd <adrian () creative net au>]

On Tue, Feb 27, 2001, Jim Duncan wrote:

> As a side note, this is a problem with the standards.  In particular,
> how the standards _require_ a function to be implemented.

<TONGUE LOCATION="CHEEK">
  Now, if only all other standards were implemented so faithfully
  by all the vendors ..
</TONGUE>

:-)

(sorry, couldn't resist.)

And yes, we received a call at work from our cisco rep outlining the
bug a few days ago. That was really nice of them. Well done guys.



Adrian

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