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Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment
From: Barry Shein <bzs () world std com>
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:15:37 -0500
On January 13, 2010 at 12:55 standalone.sysadmin () gmail com (Matt Simmons) wrote:
That would be excellent for both the administrator, and anyone walking 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.
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Barry Shein <bzs () world std com> wrote:On January 12, 2010 at 23:03 Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu (Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu) wrote:  > On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:50:37 PST, Bill Stewart said:  > > A password recovery method I've found very frustrating is to use the  > > serial number or similar value that's on a label on the bottom of the  > > equipment.  >  > Related pet peeve:  Inventory and asset control people that stick a sticker on  > hardware and then expect to be able to scan the barcode at a later date. Works  > fine if the barcode sticker actually ends up facing the front or the back of  > the rack.  But occasionally, the sticker ends up stuck on an empty space on the  > printed circuit board of a upgrade blade that's plugged into a chassis...  > Sounds like RFID FTW! Actually, I have no idea if it'd work, maybe someone else does. Seems like it'd be nice to be able to just wand a rack and poof out comes a list of everything in it. --     -Barry Shein The World        | bzs () TheWorld com      | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD     | Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool & Die   | Public Access Internet   | SINCE 1989   *oo*-- LITTLE GIRL: But which cookie will you eat FIRST? COOKIE MONSTER: Me think you have misconception of cookie-eating process.
-- -Barry Shein The World | bzs () TheWorld com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD | Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool & Die | Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*
Current thread:
- Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment, (continued)
- Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment Steven Bellovin (Jan 13)
- RE: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment Nathan Eisenberg (Jan 13)
- Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment Steven Bellovin (Jan 13)
- Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment Graeme Fowler (Jan 13)
- RE: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment Nathan Eisenberg (Jan 13)
- Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 13)
- Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment Joel Jaeggli (Jan 13)
- Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 13)
- Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment Jon Lewis (Jan 13)
- RE: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment Nathan Eisenberg (Jan 13)
- Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment Barry Shein (Jan 13)
- Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment Matthew Palmer (Jan 13)
- Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment gordon b slater (Jan 12)
- Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment Steven Bellovin (Jan 06)
- Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment Joel Esler (Jan 06)
- Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment Mark Foster (Jan 06)
- Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment Matthew Palmer (Jan 06)
- Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment Joe Hamelin (Jan 06)
- Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment Dobbins, Roland (Jan 06)
- Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment Dobbins, Roland (Jan 06)
- RE: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment George Bonser (Jan 06)