[154496] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco Update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Thu Jul 5 12:44:11 2012
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 12:42:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: Sean Harlow <sean@seanharlow.info>
In-Reply-To: <9F05D45D-22A1-480E-9756-EB38134CE183@seanharlow.info>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, 5 Jul 2012, Sean Harlow wrote:
> On Jul 5, 2012, at 11:24, Joe Greco wrote:
>
>> And what happens when your *cough* "router" isn't actually on the
>> Internet? How can it be managed and upgraded on a regular old network?
>
> If there is no internet connection, you get a very limited page that's apparently only really good to get you back online.
Routers are sometimes used on networks that don't have internet
connectivity [by design]. This seems amazingly short-sighted for a
company that's been around selling routing gear as long as cisco.
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