I hate to break it to you, but it's highly unlikely that someone clueful at Linksys actually read William's email, fixed the firmware, put it through quality assurance, and released it to the public, all within the space of about 24 hours... Although the IP backbone might not run without a lot of the people on this list, we're not that important.... :-) -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Jay R. Ashworth Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 1:03 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Dear Linksys: Your broken WET54GS5 makes me sad. On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 06:20:03PM -0700, william(at)elan.net wrote:
For those of you who emailed me privately about also running into this bug, I just got an email from Linksys support saying they released a new firmware version today(!) that resolves the problem.
How convenient. Somebody must be reading NANOG :) (the case of bad publicity in right place is working wonders for some vendors who are otherwise hard to do press to do things quickly)
And, as much as everyone on the list would probably hate to think it, since it encourages more such behaviour in the future, I'd bet this is *exactly* what happened, though we'll likely never hear confrimation thereof. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates The Things I Think '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 If you can read this... thank a system administrator. Or two. --me