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Draconian Forced Firmware Policy - MR1100 & LBR20
Looking for feedback from Netgear on your Firmware policies: 1. Please allow users the option of blocking automatic firmware updates 2. Please provide complete and descriptive release motes to allo...
18outrage wrote:2. Please provide complete and descriptive release motes to allow reasonable assessment of firmware updates, example LBR20 2.6.3.50 fw seems to have re-written the partition structure and disabled telnet access, while Netgear release notes say, Fixes bugs and issues. Anyone else find this incredibly annoying?
Unfortunately, Netgear is very substandard in providing informative and comprehensive firmware release notes, especially in the consumer area.
Telnet (shell access) was - different form various other products - never a feature. Needless to say, if one does hear we did this for security reasons (sigh) it does always leave the interested user with the idea we-have-to-hide-something.
Ref. the partition structure change (I have no idea if it happened) a vendor must have good reasons. The risk doing this is much higher than just a simple firmware update. But then, they need to have the base of installed products up to speed, for current and future interoperability and coming-up features and services. That's why giving the average Joe the chance to disable the updates they will face issues and unwanted support effort in the future.