One of my employers once ordered a pallet of Huawei routers. They turned up with a custom firmware provided by a different ISP. It was completely locked down, and only configurable via TR-069 and some proprietary Huawei ONT magic.
I also had a customer once that deployed a series of routers that were cloud managed only via the ISP. Not even TR-069 but they just did DHCP and phoned home via a proprietary protocol. Magic my customer said, he can just reboot customer routers remotely. The company that manufactured that router went bust 8 months later, leaving a bunch of preconfigured routers without a cloud portal and no path forward. Surprised I havent seen a DNS hijack published for them yet.
One of my employers once ordered a pallet of Huawei routers. They turned up with a custom firmware provided by a different ISP. It was completely locked down, and only configurable via TR-069 and some proprietary Huawei ONT magic.
I also had a customer once that deployed a series of routers that were cloud managed only via the ISP. Not even TR-069 but they just did DHCP and phoned home via a proprietary protocol. Magic my customer said, he can just reboot customer routers remotely. The company that manufactured that router went bust 8 months later, leaving a bunch of preconfigured routers without a cloud portal and no path forward. Surprised I havent seen a DNS hijack published for them yet.