Robert E. Seastrom writes: >Not sure what you mean by this, but the painful reality is that most >stuff, once deployed, gets promptly forgotten about, much the same as >you might ignore a wall wart power supply under your desk until it >started smelling funny or stopped delivering electricity. Thus, I >contend that one's routers should be configured to avoid ticking time >bombs. As smb so eloquently just asserted, "availability is a >security issue too".
This is particularly but not exclusively true if they are implementing an "overhead" function - i.e., if they are not directly in the money-generating path. If they are, they at least have some chance at getting some attention when not on fire. Otherwise, they will likely be ignored until failure. Joe
