[89931] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (goemon@anime.net)
Wed Apr 12 15:42:07 2006
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 12:35:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: goemon@anime.net
To: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
Cc: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>,
John Underhill <stepnwlf@magma.ca>, simon@darkmere.gen.nz,
nanog@nanog.org, mike@sentex.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0604121511450.9323-100000@amethyst.justthe.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Steve Sobol wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>> By the way, since we're talking about D-Link, it's instructive to read the
>> warnings on their firmware update pages.
>> Do NOT upgrade firmware on any D-Link product over a wireless
>> connection. Failure of the device may result. Use only hard-wired
>> network connections.
> Cisco/Linksys says the same thing.
It is safe to do it with openwrt at least. scp the firmware to a local
file, then update flash from that file.
-Dan
