Ciena 6200 clue?

Jeff Shultz jeffshultz at wvi.com
Wed Jul 3 20:01:44 UTC 2013


On 7/3/2013 12:57 PM, Brandon Ross wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Jul 2013, Jason Lixfeld wrote:
>
>> The SE who's onsite is apparently claiming that there is no provision
>> to set a default gateway on the management interface.
>
> Everyone knows that attacks against your management interface come from
> devices not on your management network.  By removing the default gateway
> feature, Ciena is improving the security of your network.
>

While my device is not a Ciena, it has the same issue - and I don't 
think I'm going to be getting attacks against my management interface on 
a 10.0.x.x network.

I want the option to decide for myself.

I'm not all that interested in setting up a management VLAN so this one 
device in my central office will be happy on it's "virtually flat" network.

-- 
Jeff Shultz






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