Re:Cable Haunt: A critical vulnerability found in cable modems
by Fnoord on Monday January 13, 2020 @10:01AM
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DSL has the same issue. You can run a PCI DSL modem (Sangoma S518 [ADSL1], Sangoma S519 [ADSL2], VigorNIC 132 [VDSL]) but it either uses a proprietary binary blob for the firmware, or it abstracts the interface to a generic RTL8139 or whatever (which works with many OSes).
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Re:Cable Haunt: A critical vulnerability found in cable modems
by blattimwind on Monday January 13, 2020 @10:13AM
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The VigorNIC is really just a Vigor130 on a PCI card. It has it's own Linux-based modem/router firmware running on it and you configure it by accessing the usual web interface exposed on the virtual ethernet port.