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I wonder how networking equipment manufacturers can motivate regular users to update their equipment more regularly? Auto update would seems like a logical one
by sbradford26 8y ago
I wonder how networking equipment manufacturers can motivate regular users to update their equipment more regularly? Auto update would seems like a logical one but plenty of people have reasons to not update and don't want there router going down at times they cannot control.
- lousken 8y agoFor most people router is something they don't want to touch and sometimes they don't even have access to it because it's managed by somebody else. But as the first comment says - introducing breaking changes is not acceptable and they should appear only in major releases. And then those security bugfixes should be backported on all major versions which were released at least 5 years back. Yesterday I upgraded mikrotik from 6.14 to 6.42 and it took me 30minutes of additional configuration to make everything working again. Also mikrotik collets a lot of network stats so implementing an algorithm which would restart the router when there's usually the least amount of traffic should be feasible - those updates take less than a minute so it's not like windows 10.