[GTALUG] Netgear 5-port Gigabit switch -- $10 ?

James Knott james.knott at rogers.com
Sat Mar 26 23:32:45 UTC 2016


On 03/26/2016 09:58 PM, David Thornton wrote:
>
> "As for security, I do a fair bit of work with Cisco gear and am a CCNA.
> Telnet is very often used to configure them, which is plain text."
>
> Oh god my eyes.
>

I don't recommend telnet, but many people do use it.  However, it's not
as risky as it used to be.  Back in the days of coax or hub based
Ethernet, anyone could see all the traffic on the network.  This made it
easy to intercept IDs and passwords.  With switches, in order to do
that, you'd need one of those taps I mentioned earlier or management
access to the switch.  Of course, telnet still shouldn't be used over
the Internet.  Also, while some gear supports ssh, there is still a lot
that's telnet only.



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