<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">On 8 January 2014 09:09, Rory Holland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:me@rory.sh" target="_blank">me@rory.sh</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">In general, I'd agree with silently pushing firmware updates to consumer routers - it's highly unlikely most router owners would think to check for an update, and would go unaware of any unpatched security issues.<br>
</div></blockquote><div>To a very large extent I agree with you. We can't all be experts in everything and not everyone likes IT; Windows Updates is another example. Where I have a slight issue is this not being documented and at least W.U. is documented, so those of us who want to can turn the thing off (well, I set mine to tell me; starting an overnight test run only to have the server reboot is somewhat irksome to say the least).<br>
<br></div><div>From further reading it seems this port is only open LAN side and not WAN. So it may be an entry point to try and recover a bricked device, some hold-over from testing or simple cock-up which got copied from device-to-device. <br>
<br>On 8 January 2014 09:33, Peter Stokes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peter@ashlyn.co.uk" target="_blank">peter@ashlyn.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>> Have to say, have used Draytek for many years now and can only recommend them, and no they do not have the port open.<br>
</div><div>I've found the more consumer-grade Buffalo unit I bought to be really good. Shame how the ethernet ports have been done, but not an enormous deal to me. Stable and highly functional with decent aerials, but DD-WRT does seem to have a few rough edges (e.g. it can't show its own firewall logs nor does it support HTTPS for Dynamic DNS).<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>J.<br></div></div></div></div>