28 Mar
2016
28 Mar
'16
2:12 a.m.
On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 08:55:57AM -0400, Alvin Starr wrote:
Even with SSH the first thing coming back from the switch is a set of well defined headers and prompts so I would be willing to bet that SSH on a switch is fairly crackable.
You would probably loose that bet. Unless of course someone has made a bad random number generator and the keys are predictable
A lot of the lower end switches use a http web interface which is no more secure than telnet.
Sadly switch configuration has not changed much in the last 20+ years. It would be interesting to see cheap Openflow switches but that technology is still a few years away from permeating the SME market.
Yeah I am not sure when that is likely to happen. -- Len Sorensen