Network Operational Options: To Serve or To Sever?
These flawed devices are not easily reconfigurable. Representatives from both Netgear and UW-Madison believe that it is not a viable option to rely on Netgear’s customers to upgrade to the newer firmware (the first of which was released in July) to correct the errant behavior. Our review team has considered a number of possible options about how to deal with the errant Netgear time requests. While I won’t discuss all the details here, the two primarily endgames on which we’ve focused are outlined below.