[154594] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco Update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Howard)
Fri Jul 6 02:31:58 2012
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.1207051241190.4715@soloth.lewis.org>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 23:31:19 -0700
From: Scott Howard <scott@doc.net.au>
To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
If the router is not connected to the internet (either due to network
design, or just because you ripped out the WAN cable) then it IS able to be
managed locally. Plug the Internet back in, and that option goes away.
Scott
