telnet into a netgear switch?

Tue Nov 26 04:51:29 UTC 2013

On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Pedro Cavaca <pmsac.nanog at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 25 November 2013 23:42, David Birdsong <david at imgix.com> wrote:
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>> On Nov 25, 2013 1:51 PM, "Jason Pope" <boards188 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 18:47:09 -0800
>> > From: David Birdsong <david at imgix.com>
>> > To: nanog at nanog.org
>> > Subject: telnet into a netgear switch?
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>> > 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.
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>> > 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.
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>> > 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.
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>> > 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
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>> > up, I'm not sure what a payload is good for if the switch doesn't ACK a
>> > single SYN.
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>> > I'm curious if anybody's got any tips besides not using Netgear in the
>> > datacenter.
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>> > I have the MAC, I've IP'd it via DHCP, and the model number: JGS524E
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>> > can power cycle the switch as much as needed.
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>> > P.S. long time listener, first time caller. i'm more of a sysadmin
>> > dangerously standing in for a proper network person.
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>> > Seems to me that you need to use their "Switch Configuration Utility" to
>> > manage the switch.  I didn't read all the documentation, but that is
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>> > jumps out at me after a brief look.  Maybe it will allow you to enable
>> > telnet or ssh from there.  See the following link:
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>> No windows box handy, nor the desire for that hoop.
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>> ...but what magic is a windows app going to perform to wake up an
>> unresponsive TCP stack?
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> In view that the application needs to be run directly on the LAN, I'm not
> sure why you'd expect any TCP/IP like protocol - I asked a friend for a
> packet capture and it seems that the configuration utility is using RRCP (
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realtek_Remote_Control_Protocol).
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t'was finding this that made reassured me towards TCP/IP:
https://code.google.com/p/netgear-telnetenable/

 but yes, i'd completely forgotten about other protocols.

HTH
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>> > http://downloadcenter.netgear.com/en/product/JGS524E
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>> > Jason
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