> At 15:51 05/07/2012 +0000, Mario Eirea wrote: > >Has anyone seen this yet? Looks like Cisco was forcing people to join its > >Cloud service through an update for it's consumer level routers. > > > >http://www.neowin.net/news/cisco-locks-users-out-of-their-routers-requires-invasive-cloud-service > > > >-Mario Eirea > > For those of us who have not kept up with every latest feature that Cisco > rolls out across all its platforms, can someone explain this new > service? Is it like Windows update, where Cisco will auto-update your > router s/w and thereby brick it? If I don't register my router with Cisco, > what do I lose? I can't update it manually?
And what happens when your *cough* "router" isn't actually on the Internet? How can it be managed and upgraded on a regular old network? ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
