From: Anthony Sequeira (asequeira@internetworkexpert.com)
Date: Sat Jan 10 2009 - 15:00:56 ARST
Yes indeed - if we omitted the password from the task it was in error
and not "candidate hardening" :-)
Errors and omissions like this do occur in the actual lab papers and
that is one of the main reasons the proctors are there.
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On Jan 10, 2009, at 11:55 AM, Piotr M wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There is no way to see that password because it is MD5 hash. You
> could use 'rainbow tables' and crack it, but I affraid you'll not get
> so much time during the lab :)
>
> Anyway, the password must be provided to you during the lab. If you
> don't know what the password is, try 'cisco' or 'CISCO' - I bet it
> will work :)
>
> HTH,
> PM
>
> 2009/1/10 <mihai.grigore@onlinehome.de>:
>> Respected fellow Experts,
>>
>> I have a task asking about a BGP peering to a backbone router (IE
>> WB vol2
>> Lab16, Task 4.1). The beauty of this task is that the backbone
>> router is using
>> MD5 authentication, but the task does not mention the password.
>> This is part of
>> the candidate hardening procedure.... :-)
>>
>> On my router, I have enabled debugging for TCP transactions and
>> this is what I
>> can see:
>>
>> Lab16_R2#deb ip tcp tra
>>
>> *Jan 10 12:33:14.561: TCB85961AE8 setting property TCP_MD5KEY (5)
>> 0 <<< I am
>> using no MD5
>> (output ommited)
>>
>> *Jan 10 12:33:24.300: MD5 received, but NOT expected from
>> 192.10.1.254:179 to
>> 192.10.1.2:31253
>>
>> So, the BB2 router is sending me MD5 key and I cannot know what
>> this is from
>> the debug above. By the way, is there any way how to see the
>> password?
>>
>> For the Lab, what to do in such a situation? Ask the proctor what
>> the password
>> would be?
>>
>> TIA,
>> Mihai
>>
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