Re: Patching for Cisco vulnerability

[Daniel Roesen <dr () cluenet de>]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 03:04:45PM -0400, Jared Mauch wrote:
>       most providers can easily go from (for example)
> 12.0(21)S3 to 12.0(21)S7 with less testing than from 12.0(21)S to 12.0(25)S

12.0(21)S* (at least S5 and above) have broken SNMP interface counters
and Cisco refuses to fix the bug in 12.0(21)S*, so people who don't
want to lose money (accounting) are forced to upgrade to 12.0(25)S*.
I guess they want to force all "conservative" ISPs to jump over
the 12.0(22)S "barrier".

Some things won't be forgotten (see also recent discussion about the
new non-"Cisco"-GBIC blocking). Voting with pockets takes place.


Regards,
Daniel