[121229] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Simmons)
Wed Jan 13 12:55:50 2010
In-Reply-To: <19278.258.350014.385990@world.std.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:55:00 -0500
From: Matt Simmons <standalone.sysadmin@gmail.com>
To: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org, Bill Stewart <nonobvious@gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
That would be excellent for both the administrator, and anyone walking
down the row with a wand in their pocket.
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com> wrote:
>
> On January 12, 2010 at 23:03 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt=
.edu) wrote:
> =C2=A0> On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:50:37 PST, Bill Stewart said:
> =C2=A0> > A password recovery method I've found very frustrating is to us=
e the
> =C2=A0> > serial number or similar value that's on a label on the bottom =
of the
> =C2=A0> > equipment.
> =C2=A0>
> =C2=A0> Related pet peeve: =C2=A0Inventory and asset control people that =
stick a sticker on
> =C2=A0> hardware and then expect to be able to scan the barcode at a late=
r date. Works
> =C2=A0> fine if the barcode sticker actually ends up facing the front or =
the back of
> =C2=A0> the rack. =C2=A0But occasionally, the sticker ends up stuck on an=
empty space on the
> =C2=A0> printed circuit board of a upgrade blade that's plugged into a ch=
assis...
> =C2=A0>
>
> 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.
>
>
> --
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0-Barry Shein
>
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