[121228] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Wed Jan 13 12:22:54 2010
From: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:21:06 -0500
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
In-Reply-To: <13915.1263355426@localhost>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org, Bill Stewart <nonobvious@gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On January 12, 2010 at 23:03 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu) wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:50:37 PST, Bill Stewart said:
> > A password recovery method I've found very frustrating is to use the
> > serial number or similar value that's on a label on the bottom of the
> > equipment.
>
> Related pet peeve: Inventory and asset control people that stick a sticker on
> hardware and then expect to be able to scan the barcode at a later date. Works
> fine if the barcode sticker actually ends up facing the front or the back of
> the rack. But occasionally, the sticker ends up stuck on an empty space on the
> printed circuit board of a upgrade blade that's plugged into a chassis...
>
Sounds like RFID FTW!
Actually, I have no idea if it'd work, maybe someone else does. Seems
like it'd be nice to be able to just wand a rack and poof out comes a
list of everything in it.
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