[ale] testing the reboot and upgrade

[DJ-Pfulio]

On 01/05/2017 07:53 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
> The comment from Netgear is pretty bad.  no workarounds, no way to
> firewall the port and no way to turn off the service.

Think you replied to the wrong thread.

Which is why the only viable option is running a well-patched,
constantly maintained, BSD or Linux distro as your edge router is
necessary.

None of these companies does enough. It is too hard for them.
Even expensive "enterprise" routers fail with this sort of stuff.

Even with all the problems, old bugs going unpatched, that BSD/Linux
has, they are still the best options available to most people. When a
network-based attack is known, it gets patched very quickly. At least
that is my impression.