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RE: Cisco Update
From: "Keith Medcalf" <kmedcalf () dessus com>
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 19:43:53 -0600
I see. Replace "local access" control with "let anyone on the internet reconfigure the thing". Whoever's idea it was should be p*ssed on, keelhauled, drawn and quartered, then burned at the stake. --- () ascii ribbon campaign against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org
-----Original Message----- From: Sean Harlow [mailto:sean () seanharlow info] Sent: Thursday, 05 July, 2012 10:26 To: Hank Nussbacher Cc: nanog () nanog org Subject: Re: Cisco Update On Jul 5, 2012, at 12:08, Hank Nussbacher wrote:For those of us who have not kept up with every latest feature that Ciscorolls 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.
Current thread:
- Re: Cisco Update, (continued)
- Re: Cisco Update Sean Harlow (Jul 05)
- Re: Cisco Update Scott Howard (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)
- Re: Cisco Update Jimmy Hess (Jul 05)
- Re: Cisco Update Randy Bush (Jul 05)
- Re: Cisco Update Joe Greco (Jul 07)
- Re: Cisco Update Jeroen van Aart (Jul 11)
- Re: Cisco Update Tyler Haske (Jul 11)