[154564] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Cisco Update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Keith Medcalf)
Thu Jul 5 21:44:47 2012
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 19:43:53 -0600
In-Reply-To: <977C2C1F-0994-4297-B5B0-54E3D6E796C3@seanharlow.info>
From: "Keith Medcalf" <kmedcalf@dessus.com>
To: "Sean Harlow" <sean@seanharlow.info>,
"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
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.
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> -----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 Cis=
co
> 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 lo=
se?
> 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 regard=
less
> 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.
>
