[c-nsp] Cisco IOS

[Elmar K. Bins]

Re Jon,

jlewis at lewis.org (Jon Lewis) wrote:


> > 	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..
> 
> That's what we do, but it's still not a problem.  I use the browser on my 
> desktop to navigate cisco's web site, find the image I need, get to the 
> step where I'm about to download it to my desktop, then copy the URL, and 
> use lynx on the tftp server to download the image directly to the server. 

I believe most of us do similar things; maybe mangle paths and names a bit
more to get to the crypto image, but that's actually it.

I believe the real culprit is that Cisco's web and ftp servers are, and
have been for a while, marketing assets. I am not sure that they even see
a need for a proper file retrieval system, since you can do all this and
more pretty flashy, funky, colourful and with a lot of disclaimers and
advertisement in http.


> I wouldn't have thought such a system for grabbing IOS was unusual.

It isn't. If Cisco understood what people did with the images (e.g., put
them on tftp servers to upload them to gear), they could improve the FTP
site a lot, and also remove the unnecessary flashyness from that part of
the web site.

Elmar.

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