Google will eventually be completely replacing all the routers with its Aruba gear. It expects the process to take 18 months. Cisco would not confirm if it was the exclusive supplier for AT&T’s 7,000 store deployment, but it’s safe to say it will be getting the boot from several Starbucks locations, in the least
via Aruba Networks Replaces Cisco in Starbucks | Light Reading.
In a previous report, we released a list of SOHO router vulnerabiltiies and showed proof-of-concept (PoC) attack code for how to exploit them. For many of these routers, those PoCs operated through the main web-based interface. In this follow up study, we addressed only the extraneous, non-router services that were present on the routers. What we found was that of the 10 routers reviewed, all 10 could be compromised from the (wireless) LAN once a router had USB attached storage connected.
via Hacking and Rooting SOHO Home Routers.
This is hardly surprising. Currently I only use SOHO routers as dumb wifi access points and that’s it. I don’t know why anyone would want to make one of these cheaply built devices into some kind of NAS.
The next Cisco Systems Inc. is apparently named the “CTR” and is aiming for densities of at least 1Tbit/s per slot, according to a Cisco document obtained by Light Reading.
via Light Reading – Cisco Preps Its Next Core Router: The ‘CTR’.
The vRouter is a software-based router that runs on server hardware, so it can do other things — routing (duh) or acting as a virtual private network (VPN) gateway, for instance. The attraction to the firewall piece is that cloud customers previously had been building things like firewalls out of Linux components, says John Engates, Rackspace’s CTO.
The free community Vyatta Core software(VC) is an award-winning open source network operating system providing advanced IPv4 and IPv6 routing, stateful firewalling, IPSec and SSL OpenVPN, and more. When you add Vyatta to a standard x86 hardware system, you can create an enterprise grade network appliance that easily scales from DSL to 10Gbps. Vyatta is also optimized to run in VMware, Citrix XenServer, Xen, KVM, and Hyper V, providing networking and security services to virtual machines and cloud computing environments. Vyatta has been downloaded over 1,000,000 times, has a community of hundreds of thousands of registered users and counts dozens of fortune 500 businesses among its commercial customers.
via Welcome to Vyatta.org | Vyatta.org Community.
On this site, you’ll find all the downloads, tools, documentation, and community resources to help you get up and running with your own Vyatta-based system. Ask questions in the Forums. Propose new features and vote on existing proposals. Participate and have fun. We have been working together with our community for over five years to continue to enhance the world’s leading software-based network OS.
Today I am publishing 5 Linksys router vulnerabilities so that consumers may be aware of the risks.
linksys vulns.txt
via Don’t Use Linksys Routers « Superevr.
I run a WRT54GL in my network but installed tomato on it because I never liked the linksys GUI and wanted to try out tomato. Here’s his take on the WRT54GL:
1. Linksys WRT54GL Firmware Upload CSRF Vulnerability
I demonstrate Cross-Site File Upload in my BlackHat and AppSec USA talks. If you need more info on the vector itself, check out How to upload arbitrary file contents cross-domain by Kotowicz.
I suspect these kind of exploits exist in all consumer grade routers.
Compass-EOS claims it can eliminate that step and just keep throwing routers at the problem, so to speak. Each router treats neighboring Compass-EOS routers as if they were its own line cards.
There’s a distance limitation, of course: about 200 meters. That’s still long enough that two routers, working in conjunction, can be on different floors of a building.
via Light Reading – Photonics Fire Up Radical Core Router Startup.
The auditor also found Cisco “showed a wanton indifference to the interests of the public” in recommending the investment in its model 3945 branch routers, the majority of which were “oversized” for the requirements of the state agencies using them, the report stated.
via West Virginia auditor blasts Cisco, state for “oversized” router buy – Network World.
The following is a listing of all of the available menu options in the Tomato GUI, and their functions.
As settings on a page are edited the Save button at bottom of page must be clicked before navigating to another page otherwise the newly entered settings are not saved.
via Tomato Firmware/Menu Reference – Wikibooks, open books for an open world.
This should be a relatively smooth transition that won’t affect current customers: Belkin says it will honor all valid warranties for current and future Linksys products. After the transaction closes, Belkin will account for approximately 30 percent of the US retail home and small business networking market.
via Cisco Exits The Consumer Market As It Sells Linksys To Belkin.
These cheap home routers have become commodities. As far as I know Belkin makes a decent product. Cisco tried to require its home router users to be managed by its cloud platform and after that debacle it seemed all downhill from there for them. If possible I prefer to use a real Linux box running real iptables as a gateway using these wifi home routers as access points.