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Re: (ASCEND) Lost Cause
I'm glad somebody else feels this way as well. There actually is a
way to reset the thing to default config if you have physical access
to it. However, this will void your warranty, it is undocumented, and
it is not an easy task (requires you to physically break down the
Ascend, unit mess with jumpers etc....).
Brian
On Tue, 17 Mar 1998 19:23:01 -0600 (CST), you wrote:
>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.
>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> 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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