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Nortel Business Ethernet Switch 50
5August 10, 2008
I recently started evaluating the Nortel Business Ethernet Switch 50 for Small Office and Home Office (SOHO) deployments in a Virtual Private Network.
These are very small business offices, doctor’s offices and senior executives homes where we don’t need the features that an Ethernet Routing Switch 4500 or 5500 series switch would provide. There are really fours variables to keep in mind; price, size, noise and features. One of the features we were looking for was Power over Ethernet (PoE) ports for an IP phone and/or a wireless access port.
We evaluated the BES50FE-24T PWR and the BES50GE-24T PWR and they both performed nicely in bandwidth tests. We did observe some odd behavior with some different end devices that all seemed to be resolved when we upgraded the switches to that latest software release (v1.0.5.0 for the BES50GE-24TPWR and v1.0.3.0 for the BES50FE-24TPWR).
Default Username: nnadmin
Default Password: PlsChgMe!
Default Read Only SNMP String: PlsChgMe!RO
Default Read-Write SNMP String: PlsChgMe!RW
I’ve generally found that the BES50 will default to an IP address of 192.168.1.128 although Nortel advises the use of the Nortel Business Element Manager to search for the device (please refer to the Quick Install Guide above).
Cheers!
Update: January 12, 2009
How do you factory reset the BES50?
When pressed for 5 seconds, the reset button reinitializes the switch. This returns the switch to the factory default settings if, for example, you forget the default IP address, your user name, or your password.
The reset button is found on the front of the BES50 as depicted in the graphic above. The actual button is approximately 1 inch inside the faceplate and Nortel advises that you use a non-metallic object to depress the button.
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Nortel Business Ethernet Switch 110
2March 19, 2008
In June 2006 Nortel released a whole new line of class Ethernet Switches for small to medium sized businesses. While these switches don’t support the latest and greatest enterprise features they seem to be a very good value for those small businesses.
There are multiple models to choose from in both the 24port and 48port form factors, there are PoE (Power over Ethernet) models as well.
A full list of the models and there feature sets can be found here.
There are some re-occuring questions from folks that I thought I would post on;
What is the default username and password?
Username: nnadmin
Password: PlsChgMe!
How can I factory reset the switch or recover the password?
There is a reset button in the front of the switch depicted in the figure below as (2);
What is the default IP address of the switch?
The default IP address is 192.168.1.132 with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0.
How can I login to the switch?
Just give your desktop or laptop a static IP address in the 192.168.1.0/24 network, connect your desktop or laptop to any of the RJ45 ports and open a web browser to http://192.168.1.132.
While I’m happy to post this information here let me just point out that all this information is in the documentation if you chose to RTFM.
Cheers!
Nortel VPN Router (Default Password)
0January 19, 2008
by Michael McNamara in VPNRouter
The Nortel VPN (formerly Contivity) Routers are among some of the best in the industry. The majority of the product line came to Nortel (formerly Bay Networks) from the acquisition of New Oak back in 1999.
Since that time Nortel has added a few lower end SOHO solutions, Nortel VPN Router 200 series, to the product line which I believe are OEM’d from ZyXEL. I’m not very fond of the 200 series and I would NOT recommend them to anyone. I am, however, very fond of the 1100 series as it runs the same software that the larger models run.
Thankfully they all share the same default username and password. Unfortunately they don’t all share the same software or configuration interface.
The default username is “admin”.
The default password is “setup”.
With the traditional Nortel (Contivity Switches) VPN routers there are two internal IP addresses assigned to the one physical internal interface. One IP address is for management and the other for routing traffic. The default management IP address for these models (Nortel VPN Router 1000 Series, 2000 Series, 4000 Series, 5000 Series) is;
http://192.168.1.2
The actual traffic interface is 192.168.1.1 and the default DHCP address range should be between 192.168.1.3 – 192.168.1.254.
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