[154493] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco Update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Harlow)
Thu Jul 5 12:31:03 2012
From: Sean Harlow <sean@seanharlow.info>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.2.20120705190432.0092ea18@efes.iucc.ac.il>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 12:26:15 -0400
To: Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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.
