Cisco Update

[jgreco at ns.sol.net (Joe Greco)]

> 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
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