[122120] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Insecure Cable networks ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Schecter)
Sat Feb 6 00:10:25 2010
In-Reply-To: <202705b1002051843l16af5ca2qff387812f1763549@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 00:09:45 -0500
From: Steven Schecter <schecter@gmail.com>
To: Jorge Amodio <jmamodio@gmail.com>, NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Jorge Amodio <jmamodio@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it a common practice on cable network providers to leave access
> to the cable modem/router management web UI wide open ?
it's very common for a CM to operate a web page, usually
http://192.168.100.1/ that offer the local user diagnostic
capabilities. it should not, however, provide administrative access.
that said, in some of the newer "gateway" style modems, some
administrative access to the to the CPE side can be made available via
the use of split configuration.
regards,
/steve
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Steven J. Schecter
