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Re: Cisco vulnerability and dangerous filtering techniques


From: Jason Frisvold <friz () corp ptd net>
Date: 22 Jul 2003 13:53:55 -0400

On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 09:54, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that at least 30% of Ciscos are installed
in places that would, if hit with this, have NO CLUE why their router needs to be
power cycled every 30 mins.....

Not only the "clueless", but how about those of us who deploy older
routers sometime in the future with legitimate uses?  What happens when
we "forget" that this bug exists?  Now we have to go through the process
of adding a "don't forget the IPV4 Cisco Bug" clause to our procedures..

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Jason H. Frisvold
Backbone Engineering Supervisor
Penteledata Engineering
friz () corp ptd net
RedHat Engineer - RHCE # 807302349405893
Cisco Certified - CCNA # CSCO10151622
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