[c-nsp] "Enhanced" download procedure

[Eric Van Tol]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-
> bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Gert Doering
> Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 6:37 AM
> To: Stig Johansen
> Cc: Cisco Mailing list
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] "Enhanced" download procedure
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:56:14PM +0200, Stig Johansen wrote:
> > Oscar Bauer wrote:
> > >Unfortunately we cannot enabled Wget, cURL, Fetching URLs,
> > >crawling or scripting as these may have been possible to use
> > >in the past but were never supported when download software
> > >from Cisco.com. However there are several remote access clients
> > >or capabilities built into each operating system that support
> > >remote desktop access. Here are the steps to configure XP on
> 
> This is very obvious a person that never had to do remote network
> maintenance
> before.  As in "I'm sitting in a a hotel, the link is congested and the
> latency is high, but I *need* to get this update to that router box".
> 
> I'm all willing to work with Cisco if they listen, but *this* attitude
> is not considered "listening" - it's "preaching their own belief how the
> world should be".
> 
> *sigh*
> 
> gert

Clicking through multiple authentication windows to get where you need on Cisco's site:  12 seconds
Using Software Advisor to find the right IOS:  8 minutes
Downloading IOS to a remote machine, then transferring the image to your real T/FTP/SCP server:  15 minutes
Loading the image on your router just to find out that Software Advisor is junk and your specific WIC/NM/PA/WS version isn't recognized by said image, thereby forcing you to invent a way to strangle Cisco web tool designers through standard TCP/IP:  Priceless.

-evt