Root Shell on DrayTek AP 800

The DrayTek AP 800 is a 2.4Ghz 802.11n Access Point with the ability to make it dual band, 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz, with an optional USB dongle. It supports multi-SSID with VLAN tagging, built in RADIUS server, per-SSID/station bandwidth control and can act as a bridge, repeater etc. As with all of these SOHO products it’d built on Linux. Which means somewhere there is a root shell lurking. The DrayTek AP

Automating Mass Cisco IOS Upgrades

This morning I needed to upgrade the IOS on 29 Cisco 3560G switches. Rather than login to each one, clean up the flash storage, FTP on the IOS image and set the boot image, I wrote a simple shell script and used clogin from RANCID to automate this task. Of course, nearly every Network Configuration Management platform that’s any good should be able to do this but I prefer the personal