I don’t have much experience with consumer grade Cisco routers so there’s not much I can comment on this. I do use a Huawei fiber modem+router 2-in-1 day to da

I don’t have much experience with consumer grade Cisco routers so there’s not much I can comment on this. I do use a Huawei fiber modem+router 2-in-1 day to day. The router firmware is crap and I have to do some modifications, and effectively disable the router part. The UX is more aligned with the other cheapos in the Chinese market, I think. It’s unlikely Cisco would ship something like that. I’m not sure if I’d be convinced by what Cisco says, though. The author was direcltly involved in the case two decades ago btw. Huawei admitted the usage of Cisco code, and promised to remove that part. Case closed. However the article is referring to other parts (strcmp and the like). We have limited neutral information, and in this case, I think, should remain in doubt.