20Commissioning fundamentals

hsecure mode

The Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 supports a flag called high secure (hsecure). hsecure introduces the following behaviors for the password: 10-character enforcement, aging time, limitation of failed logon attempts, and a protection mechanism to filter certain IP addresses.

After you enable the hsecure flag, the software enforces the 10-character rule for all passwords. After you upgrade from a previous release, if the password does not contain at least 10 characters, you must change your password to the mandatory character length. This password must contain a minimum of two uppercase characters, two lowercase characters, two numbers, and two special characters.

Default passwords and community strings

If the switch boots in hsecure mode as a default factory setting, and you have not configured a password, the default passwords are changed to respect this rule. The following table describes the default passwords.

Table 3

Default setting passwords

User ID

Default password

 

 

rwa

rwarwarrwar

 

 

rw

rwrwrwrwrw

 

 

ro

rororororo

 

 

l3

l3l3l3l3l3

 

 

l2

l2l2l2l2l2

 

 

l1

l1l1l1l1l1

 

 

l4admin

l4adminl4a

 

 

slbadmin

slbadminsl

 

 

oper

operoperop

 

 

l4oper

l4operl4op

 

 

slboper

slboperslb

 

 

ssladmin

ssladminss

 

 

The following table describes the default community strings.

Table 4

Default community strings

 

User ID

 

New community string

 

 

 

 

 

ro

 

publiconly

 

 

 

 

 

l1

 

privateonly

 

 

 

 

 

l2

 

privateonly

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 8600

 

 

Commissioning

 

 

NN46205-319 01.01 Standard

 

 

30 May 2008

Copyright © 2008 Nortel Networks

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Nortel Networks 8600 manual Hsecure mode, Default passwords and community strings

8600 specifications

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