[111052] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: out-of-band access bandwidth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Tue Jan 27 17:31:03 2009
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:30:54 -0800
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <C5A53267.2C1D6%leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Leigh Porter wrote:
> And be careful.. It's easy to have simple local passwords, a dial-in modem
> and then get pwned.. Were I used to be, we had encrypted modems for POP
> dialin.
>
I have my POTS modem set up to accept PPP too so there's the option of
being a little more secure than a plain text terminal, assuming the
world didn't completely blow up.
~Seth
