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hmm, thanks<br />
now off to find my serial cable.
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hmm, thanks
now off to find my serial cable.

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I need to log into our Cisco 3500 series switch, and I forgot the password.<br />
We never set a password, and I was able before to log in with telnet, but I can't remember the default password.<br />
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Some idiots are using all the bandwidth for P2P and it is making even browsing the web terribly slow for our network.
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I need to log into our Cisco 3500 series switch, and I forgot the password.
We never set a password, and I was able before to log in with telnet, but I can't remember the default password.

Some idiots are using all the bandwidth for P2P and it is making even browsing the web terribly slow for our network.

Telnet into our 3500 switch

Telnet is an application layer protocol used on the Internet or local area networks to provide a bidirectional interactive text-oriented communication facility using a virtual terminal connection. SSH was designed as a replacement for Telnet and for unsecured remote shell protocols. The term telnet is also used to refer to the software that implements the client part of the protocol. SSH provides a secure channel over an unsecured network in a client-server architecture, connecting an SSH client application with an SSH server.

SSH / Telnet Software

A switch is a device that filters and forwards packets of data between LAN segments. Switches operate at the data link layer or the network layer of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Reference Model and therefore support any packet protocol. LANs that use switches to join segments are called switched LANs or, in the case of Ethernet networks, switched Ethernet LANs. A hub is a connection point for devices in a network. Hubs are commonly used to connect segments of a LAN. A hub contains multiple ports; when a packet arrives at one port, it is copied to the other ports so that all segments of the LAN can see all packets.