[121018] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ricky Beam)
Fri Jan 8 01:00:32 2010
To: "Nick Hale" <nhale@softlayer.com>, nanog@nanog.org
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:58:29 -0500
From: "Ricky Beam" <jfbeam@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <98E72206041B1B408D3F92E91E80BF1807AE1D15@slmail101.softlayer.local>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:13:28 -0500, Nick Hale <nhale@softlayer.com> wrote:
> I think the vendor you're thinking of was Cabletron (now Enterasys). I
> had to call them and give them the Serial Number for them to provide me
> with the default password to the system after a hard reset (this was for
> an ELS100-24TXG 'switch').
And their CPE gear had a 5 minute password reset window after power on.
We hated the customers who'd figured that out.
While we're on the subject, a lot of leibert gear has a dip switch/jumper
block to turn passwords off entirely. (of course, that requires physical
access and a power cycle.)
--Ricky
