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Re: Cisco Update
From: Sean Harlow <sean () seanharlow info>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 12:26:15 -0400
On Jul 5, 2012, at 12:08, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
For those of us who have not kept up with every latest feature that Cisco rolls out across all its platforms, can someone explain this new service? Is it like Windows update, where Cisco will auto-update your router s/w and thereby brick it? If I don't register my router with Cisco, what do I lose? I can't update it manually?
Long story short, the affected routers (newer "Cisco" [former Linksys] consumer products) received an automatic firmware update which basically disables the device's onboard web UI and forces you to use Cisco's "cloud" management system. The biggest issue with this is that apparently it has some function, possibly for web filtering, which sends network traffic information of some sort to Cisco's service. They also state that regardless of the auto-update setting a device may be updated anyways if Cisco says so. One article I found says it affects the E2700, E3500, and E4500 models.
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- Cisco Update Mario Eirea (Jul 05)
- Re: Cisco Update Hank Nussbacher (Jul 05)
- Re: Cisco Update Joe Greco (Jul 05)
- Re: Cisco Update Sean Harlow (Jul 05)
- Re: Cisco Update Jon Lewis (Jul 05)
- Re: Cisco Update Sean Harlow (Jul 05)
- Re: Cisco Update Scott Howard (Jul 05)
- Re: Cisco Update Joe Greco (Jul 05)
- Re: Cisco Update Hank Nussbacher (Jul 05)
- Re: Cisco Update Sean Harlow (Jul 05)
- RE: Cisco Update David Hubbard (Jul 05)
- Re: Cisco Update Grant Ridder (Jul 05)
- Re: Cisco Update Joe Greco (Jul 05)
- Re: Cisco Update Jeff Johnstone (Jul 05)
- Re: Cisco Update Ray Soucy (Jul 05)
- Re: Cisco Update Andriy Bilous (Jul 05)
- RE: Cisco Update Keith Medcalf (Jul 05)
- RE: Cisco Update Keith Medcalf (Jul 05)
- Re: Cisco Update Joe Greco (Jul 05)
- Re: Cisco Update Jeff Johnstone (Jul 05)