[71083] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Trusting COTS - What's really in the box?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Tue Jun 8 01:52:13 2004
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 11:21:40 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@outblaze.com>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0406080106550.13911@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Sean Donelan wrote:
> How do you know what you get in the box is the same as what was
> shipped from the factory? Or was it just re-sealed and put back
> on the shelf with an altered configuration?
1. Buy a linksys box off the shelf from radio shack or wherever [factory
sealed]
2. Download the latest firmware and/or its source code from
ftp.linksys.com, or the wifi-box.net site.
3. Build it yourself
or
4. As these two I mentioned (sveasoft / wifi-box) are open source, trust
the developer community to some extent when you download firmware from
their site.
srs
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