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Re: NAT firewall for IPv6?
From: Brielle Bruns <bruns () 2mbit com>
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2016 08:42:10 -0600
On 7/1/16 8:28 PM, Edgar Carver wrote:
Unfortunately, the network admin couldn't give me the password since a local consultant set it up, and it seems they went out of business. I need to think outside the box.
So your network admin didn't bother to get the login/enable password for a device that is an integral part of your network? That's... a very big lapse in their responsibilities.
I had a consultant recently in CO try to pull the same stunt on me for one of the companies I consult for - stalling, giving bullshit reasons, etc on why they couldn't just hand over the administrative passwords to the actual IT people in the company.
Why were we demanding admin access? Because the company we were paying to maintain it we suspected weren't doing their job. We figured they knew exactly why we were asking for the information, and were buying time.
IIRC, we were right about the condition of the firewall, switches, etc.Anyways, moral of the story, don't let a consultant hold any and all the keys to the castle for exactly the situation you have right now.
-- Brielle Bruns The Summit Open Source Development Group http://www.sosdg.org / http://www.ahbl.org
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- RE: NAT firewall for IPv6?, (continued)
- RE: NAT firewall for IPv6? Naslund, Steve (Jul 05)
- Re: NAT firewall for IPv6? Lee (Jul 05)
- Re: NAT firewall for IPv6? Baldur Norddahl (Jul 05)
- Re: NAT firewall for IPv6? A . L . M . Buxey (Jul 05)
- Re: NAT firewall for IPv6? Jason R (Jul 06)
- Re: NAT firewall for IPv6? Dovid Bender (Jul 05)
- Re: NAT firewall for IPv6? Bruce Curtis (Jul 05)
- RE: NAT firewall for IPv6? Naslund, Steve (Jul 05)
- Re: NAT firewall for IPv6? Spencer Ryan (Jul 05)
- Re: NAT firewall for IPv6? Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 05)
- Re: NAT firewall for IPv6? Spencer Ryan (Jul 05)
- Re: NAT firewall for IPv6? A . L . M . Buxey (Jul 05)
- Re: NAT firewall for IPv6? Baldur Norddahl (Jul 05)
- RE: NAT firewall for IPv6? Naslund, Steve (Jul 05)
- Re: NAT firewall for IPv6? Chase Christian (Jul 05)