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Re: LinkSys WRT54G administration page availble to WAN
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 15:09:04 -0400
On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 16:43:05 +0200, Steffen Mueller <steffen.mueller () vision-it de> said:
did you check the alternative firmwares available for the Linksys ? Great enhancements are available from SVEASOFT. http://www.sveasoft.com/modules/phpBB2/index.php
I haven't looked, but all the same, it's probably insanely great. The problem is that 95% of the people that buy a Linksys couldn't figure out how to jump through all the hoops to install it. Sure, Alan can install it. And probably a few dozen others on the list will be motivated to do the firmware upgrade. However, if Linksys sold 5 million of these critters, that leaves 4,999,950 or so with lame defaults.... Consider another example - it's *quite* possible to nail down a Windows box to drastically tighten the security on it. Why do we still have problems? Because it isn't that way "out of the box", and users can't/won't do it after unboxing it....
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- Re: LinkSys WRT54G administration page availble to WAN Steffen Mueller (Jun 01)
- Re: LinkSys WRT54G administration page availble to WAN Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 01)
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- Re: LinkSys WRT54G administration page availble to WAN Matthew Caron (Jun 01)
- RE: LinkSys WRT54G administration page availble to WAN Alan W. Rateliff, II (Jun 01)
- Re: LinkSys WRT54G administration page availble to WAN Matthew Gillespie (Jun 01)
- RE: LinkSys WRT54G administration page availble to WAN Alan W. Rateliff, II (Jun 01)
- Re: LinkSys WRT54G administration page availble to WAN Jason Munro (Jun 02)
- RE: LinkSys WRT54G administration page availble to WAN Humes, David G. (Jun 02)
- Re: LinkSys WRT54G administration page availble to WAN Peter Becker (Jun 03)
- Re: LinkSys WRT54G administration page availble to WAN Paul Wouters (Jun 04)
- Re: LinkSys WRT54G administration page availble to WAN Peter Becker (Jun 03)
- Re: LinkSys WRT54G administration page availble to WAN Jerry Zwanenburg (Jun 04)