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

[Lennart Sorensen]

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.

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Len Sorensen