RE: Nortel ISA Hardware Firewall

  • From: "Jim Harrison" <Jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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  • Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 21:22:26 -0800

Steve <giggle> Gibson <snicker> of grc.com <chuckle>?
You mean the father of <chortle> "nano-probes"?
Please; no one with an ounce of IP-awareness has taken his drivel seriously in 
years.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ball, Dan [mailto:DBall@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 5:37 PM
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It's a bit harder to do now with Windows than it was with DOS, but still quite 
possible.  Steve Gibson writes all of his programs in Assembly language, and 
even offers a starter kit (http://www.grc.com/smgassembly.htm).  I haven't 
tried it yet, but if I start programming again I might look closer at it.


-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Harrison [mailto:Jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 8:26 PM
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You still can if you still remember how.
..just type "debug" at the command line.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ball, Dan [mailto:DBall@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 5:22 PM
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Yeah, like when we proved it possible to write an assembly level program 
straight from the DOS prompt using the COPY command. *sigh* The good old 
days....

-----Original Message-----
From: Thor (Hammer of God) [mailto:thor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 2:05 PM
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debug
g=c800:5

Rember those days??  ;)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ball, Dan" <DBall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 7:08 PM
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Not lucky, just more familiar with command-line usage than most IT personnel 
nowadays.  It may not seem like it to you or I, but for someone not familiar 
with entering commands from the prompt it is a very difficult procedure.

That was one of the reasons why I struggled to keep the Operating Systems 
class at the local University the way it was, they wanted me to switch to 
teaching Windows only instead of starting with DOS and showing the 
evolution.  I tried to stress the importance of knowing how to use the 
command-line even in the most modern Operating Systems.  Needless to say, I 
don't teach those classes anymore...


-----Original Message-----
From: Thor (Hammer of God) [mailto:thor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 8:22 PM
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I must be lucky... I just copy over the .bin file, reload, confirm my
config, re-save the running config to startup and move on.  I've never
really had a problem updating my IOS, and I was one of the early deployers
of Voice over Frame with the MC3810 series (which went through several
revisions).  I've been doing it for years and years now.

Do you other folks really have that much trouble upgrading Cisco IOS?  I was
not surprised to hear Pescatore bitch about it, but that is for a different
matter completely..

t



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tiago de Aviz" <Tiago@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 1:56 PM
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Hell, who wouldn't want a self-update mechanism? Updating IOS is so
painful that you're almost giving up when you think about it.

That's a Cisco-Engineer trouble ticket generator, that's what it is.
Same old story as the hardware firewall: As long as it's flowing hot
air, it's ok.



Tiago de Aviz
SoftSell - Curitiba
(41) 3340-2363
www.softsell.com.br

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>>> DBall@xxxxxxxxxxx 27/10/2005 23:08 >>>

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Here is it, from Tuesday's SANS NewsBites Vol. 7 Num. 47:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
---
--Cisco Customers Unaccustomed to Updates
(20 October 2005)
Cisco CSO John Stewart says that because Cisco customers are
unaccustomed to updating their network hardware operating system on a
regular basis, many are still running old versions of the company's
Internetwork Operating System (IOS).  Mr. Stewart says Cisco has not
adopted automatic patching because its customers do not want it.  He
hopes that the outcome of an unexpected vulnerability disclosure
earlier
this year will be that Cisco IOS users upgrade to the latest version
to
protect their systems.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/print.htm?TYPE=story&AT=39217949-2
000061744t-10000005c
[Editor's Note (Pescatore): The issue is more that it has been really,
really painful to update IOS.  It isn't a patch action, it is a shut
down and reload the OS action, which is very disruptive to the network
and very manpower intensive. While the best solution is always better
software development processes to reduce vulnerabilities, software
vendors (and switch vendors ship a lot of software) have to invest a
lot
to make the patch process easier and faster for their customers.
Microsoft learned this back during the worms of 2001 and now most
enterprises can patch Windows much, much faster with much less pain.]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
---

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas W Shinder [mailto:tshinder@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 3:41 PM
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Hi Dan,

That would be great!
Thanks!
Tom

Thomas W Shinder, M.D.
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