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(ASCEND) Lost Cause
If somebody with physical access to the router can't reset
it to factory defaults without a troublesome and expensive
RMA, then there's a serious design deficiency in the product.
Mike Berger
Shouting Ground Technologies, Inc.
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>
> From: Jennifer Dawn Myers <jdm@enteract.com>
> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 14:00:29 -0600
> Subject: Re: (ASCEND) Ascend Router SNMP Security Issues [Q]
>
> Ascend's reason for enabling SNMP by default, with default community
> strings, appears in <http://www.ascend.com/2492.html>:
>
> "What does this mean to you?
> RMAs because of lost passwords are expensive and troublesome
> for Ascend and our customers. If the router's administrator
> has left the READ COMM string to the default of "public," or
> has not disabled the R/W COMM, there is a way to retrieve the
> Access Passwords with the Java Based Configurator."
>
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