Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism

Wed Apr 12 19:35:29 UTC 2006

On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Steve Sobol wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>> By the way, since we're talking about D-Link, it's instructive to read the
>> warnings on their firmware update pages.
>> 	Do NOT upgrade firmware on any D-Link product over a wireless
>> 	connection. Failure of the device may result. Use only hard-wired
>> 	network connections.
> Cisco/Linksys says the same thing.

It is safe to do it with openwrt at least. scp the firmware to a local 
file, then update flash from that file.

-Dan