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Re: Cisco Workaround
From: Jac <jac_des_vert () yahoo com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 04:33:41 -0700 (PDT)
As to support, I heard an interesting conspiracy theory related to Cisco support and the IOS flaw: The theory is that Cisco had far to many IOS versions that they support in the field and in order to reduce support costs they "conveniently" found this flaw with the IOS software and used it to propel an upgrade of all IOS system. Thus reducing the overall costs of support and saving Cisco a large amount of $$$$$. I have found it strange that such an easy and dangerous flaw has not given Cisco a black eye on this. Micro$oft constantly is getting beaten for less dangerous flaws in their OS and other softwares, but Cisco actually has gotten praise for having found and published the flaws details [as limited as those details were]. What do you think? Jac "I'm not paranoid, everyone is out to get me." --- stephane nasdrovisky <stephane.nasdrovisky () uniway be> wrote:
As far as this particular issue is concerned, Cisco do provide a high quality of support to its customers. What they don't provide is free training for lazy network administrators. If you're unable to apply the IOS patch they freely provide to any administrator who asks for it (as stated in the advisory), why would you complain and waste anybody's time?As for Wesley, don't you believe that cisco shouldbe responsible on providinga high quality of support to its customers sincethey paid $$$$$$$$$$$$$
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