That netgear link you submitted is primarily for routers, not switches. Sent from my (old) iPhone5
On Nov 24, 2013, at 18:47, David Birdsong <da...@imgix.com> wrote: > Hey all, last night while at the datacenter I was in a pinch to extend a > rack's LAN. I compromised and ran out to the local Fry's to buy whatever > switch I could find so as to allow some configuration to happen while > we wait for the real network gear to show up. > > I left before confirming I could access the switch remotely; it was very > late and I was pretty groggy and hey, any network gear has to be > telnet'table this day and age. Of course I was mostly wrong. > > The switch expects some signed payload before allowing a telnet through. I > found this: https://code.google.com/p/netgear-telnetenable/...but I'm > having a hell of a time getting anything to respond. > > The most confounding part is the switch doesn't respond to a single SYN > packet on low ports. I'm scanning all the ports now, but if nothing shows > up, I'm not sure what a payload is good for if the switch doesn't ACK a > single SYN. > > I'm curious if anybody's got any tips besides not using Netgear in the > datacenter. > > I have the MAC, I've IP'd it via DHCP, and the model number: JGS524E and I > can power cycle the switch as much as needed. > > > P.S. long time listener, first time caller. i'm more of a sysadmin > dangerously standing in for a proper network person.
