[c-nsp] Cisco IOS

[Jared Mauch]

On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 10:28:55AM +0100, Gert Doering wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 10:30:48PM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> > Vote with your feet.  All Cisco has to do is look at the stats of the
> > image downloads from their FTP server and their www server and
> > if 99% of the images are going out www - well, can you blame them
> > if they nix the FTP server?
> > 
> > Start using FTP more to pull your images if you really want to see
> > it stay around.
> 
> I use FTP all day, and WWW is only for the crypto images (and it's a 
> major PITA).
> 
> Still, judging from the general trends in Cisco's face towards the 
> customer, I see FTP disappearing.  WWW is so much better to carry 
> corporate design, and make sure the customer has to click on "yes, 
> I am not a terrorist!!" every time he wants to download something...
> 
> Unfortunately, you can't really say "if they do that, I'll gonna buy
> from $Vendor_X", as other vendor's web sites usually suck even more :(


	Yeah, the problem i've seen is that people think
that you use the win32 tftp server to load your network off
your desktop/laptop so downloading the image is fine.  Surely
nobody would be behind cable/dsl/dial-up and be working on
the network and need to get to the 75m image to stick on their
network.

	Of course they wouldn't have a centralized image host that is
well connected, but you have to do some url wrangling to get things
to download right..

	*sigh*

	I'm encouraging everyone to stand up for FTP that cares
about being able to download images to someplace other than your 
desktop.
	

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