Same here Cisco account manager sent us a notification of the bug. Scott Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>@merit.edu on 02/27/2001 08:11:31 AM Sent by: owner-nanog@merit.edu To: Jim Duncan <jnduncan@cisco.com> cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Warning: Cisco RW community backdoor. On Tue, Feb 27, 2001, Jim Duncan wrote:

As a side note, this is a problem with the standards. In particular, how the standards _require_ a function to be implemented.

<TONGUE LOCATION="CHEEK"> Now, if only all other standards were implemented so faithfully by all the vendors .. </TONGUE> :-) (sorry, couldn't resist.) And yes, we received a call at work from our cisco rep outlining the bug a few days ago. That was really nice of them. Well done guys. Adrian -- Adrian Chadd "The fact you can download a 100 megabyte file <adrian@creative.net.au> from half way around the world should be viewed as an accident and not a right." -- Adrian Chadd and Bill Fumerola