[121233] 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 13:18:52 2010
From: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:15:37 -0500
To: Matt Simmons <standalone.sysadmin@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <5bcb62b61001130955l32ec2a84u9a3ae538831e1c88@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org, Bill Stewart <nonobvious@gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On January 13, 2010 at 12:55 standalone.sysadmin@gmail.com (Matt Simmon=
s) wrote:
> That would be excellent for both the administrator, and anyone walki=
ng
> down the row with a wand in their pocket.
All an RFID wand would give you is a unique id number for each tag in
range which someone with access to an inventory database would look up
to find the associated record for other info.
It would be mostly useless info to "anyone...with a wand."
I suppose my question is more in the realm of whether the environment
is too RF noisy for RFIDs to be reliable, do such systems exist at
that scale (can I buy 1,000 RFID tags and a wand? I'd think so but I
don't know.) Also, would RF shielding in racks make it tricky to get a
good wanding?
Anyhow, just a thought.
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> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com> wr=
ote:
> >
> > On January 12, 2010 at 23:03 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu (Valdis.Kletn=
ieks@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 i=
s to use 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 peopl=
e that stick a sticker on
> > =C2=A0> hardware and then expect to be able to scan the barcode at=
a later date. Works
> > =C2=A0> fine if the barcode sticker actually ends up facing the fr=
ont or the back of
> > =C2=A0> the rack. =C2=A0But occasionally, the sticker ends up stuc=
k on an empty space on the
> > =C2=A0> printed circuit board of a upgrade blade that's plugged in=
to a chassis...
> > =C2=A0>
> >
> > Sounds like RFID FTW!
> >
> > Actually, I have no idea if it'd work, maybe someone else does. Se=
ems
> > like it'd be nice to be able to just wand a rack and poof out come=
s a
> > list of everything in it.
> >
> >
> > --
> > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0-Barry Shein
> >
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> >
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> LITTLE GIRL: But which cookie will you eat FIRST?
> COOKIE MONSTER: Me think you have misconception of cookie-eating pro=
cess.
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-Barry Shein
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ld.com
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