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RE: Cisco Workaround
From: "Todd Mitchell - lists" <lists () ciphin com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 12:02:11 -0400
| 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 $$$$$. | | I have found it strange that such an easy and | dangerous flaw has not given Cisco a black eye on | this. Micro$oft constantly is getting beaten for less | dangerous flaws in their OS and other softwares, but | Cisco actually has gotten praise for having found and | published the flaws details [as limited as those | details were]. | | What do you think? Interesting theory; however way to risky from a business point of view. The bean counters might be happy now that they only have to support x versions of IOS & in turn are saving x dollars. But keep in mind the negative ramifications from a massive security alert are/were unknown and I doubt Cisco would risk their reputation or whatever to bring everyone onto the same wave length just to save a few pennies. Todd -- | | Jac | | | "I'm not paranoid, everyone is out to get me." | | --- stephane nasdrovisky | <stephane.nasdrovisky () uniway be> wrote: | > | > As far as this particular issue is concerned, Cisco | > do provide a high quality of | > support to its customers. What they don't provide is | > free training for lazy | > network administrators. If you're unable to apply | > the IOS patch they freely | > provide to any administrator who asks for it (as | > stated in the advisory), why | > would you complain and waste anybody's time? | > | > | > > As for Wesley, don't you believe that cisco should | > be responsible on providing | > > a high quality of support to its customers since | > they paid $$$$$$$$$$$$$ | > | > | > | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- | - | > | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- | -- | > | | | __________________________________ | Do you Yahoo!? | Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software | http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- | - | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- | -- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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- Re: Cisco Workaround, (continued)
- Re: Cisco Workaround Stephane Nasdrovisky (Jul 24)
- RE: Cisco Workaround Jofre, Sebastian (Jul 24)
- RE: Cisco Workaround Tim Donahue (Jul 28)
- RE: Cisco Workaround Ghaith Nasrawi (Jul 28)
- RE: Cisco Workaround Noonan, Wesley (Jul 28)
- RE: Cisco Workaround Martin, Olivier (Jul 28)
- Re: Cisco Workaround joshua sahala (Jul 28)
- RE: Cisco Workaround Ghaith Nasrawi (Jul 29)
- Re: Cisco Workaround stephane nasdrovisky (Jul 29)
- Re: Cisco Workaround Jac (Jul 30)
- RE: Cisco Workaround Todd Mitchell - lists (Jul 30)
- Re: Cisco Workaround James Fields (Jul 30)
- Re: Cisco Workaround Jac (Jul 31)
- RE: Cisco Workaround Adam Overlin (Jul 31)
- RE: Cisco Workaround Paul Benedek (Jul 31)
- Re: Cisco Workaround stephane nasdrovisky (Jul 29)