Connect to the spiderport's administration port from davison (the router) with telnet 192.168.1.3 2048 and login. '?' brings up the command list…

Admin: ?

The following commands are available:

ADDGATE    (or AG)       ADDHOST    (or AH)       ADDRESS    (or AD)
BOOT                     BREAK      (or BR)       CHBOOT     (or CB)
CHLINE     (or CL)       CHNAME     (or CN)       DELGATE    (or DG)
DELHOST    (or DH)       DISABLE    (or DI)       ENABLE     (or EN)
GATEWAY    (or GA)       HELP       (or  ?)       HOSTNAME   (or HO)
KILL       (or KI)       LANGUAGE   (or LA)       NAMESERVER (or NS)
PASSWORD   (or PA)       PROMPT     (or PR)       QUIT       (or  Q)
RIP        (or RI)       SHOWGATE   (or SG)       SHOWHOST   (or SH)
SHOWLINE   (or SL)       SHOWROUTE  (or SR)       SHOWSTATS  (or SS)
SIGNON     (or SI)       TCPSTATUS  (or TS)       UPTIME     (or UP)
WHOAMI     (or WH)

For more information type 'HELP command' or 'HELP ALL'.

'SL' shows the lines currently enabled/disabled and their settings. The ones marked “# Slave 1 9600 NONE NONE NONE 8 OFF # OFF” are the ones which are currently enabled.

To enable another port, you need to 'CL' for Change line and plug in the same values as above.

'SH' and 'AH' let you view and edit the hosts table, 'BOOT' and 'PA' let you restart and change the password. The hosts table should be kept up to date to reflect exactly which machines are connected to which ports, but don't be surprised if they are not.

To actually use the spiderport, you telnet spiderport <n> ie, 4 for type40 or 6 for mccoy (atow). From ^[, telnet's escape character, send break will send a Sun machine back to its prom.

We don't currently use the spiderport via a serial console/terminal, so we won't mention that for now.

The spiderport was developed by spider systems in edinburgh. It contains their TCP/IP stack which became the TCP/IP stack installed in windows95. And guess what, it's got all of the exploits and holes as well. Be careful about exposing it to the world.

As of 22:52, 26 March 2006 (BST), spiderport setup looks like this:

                            LINE CHARACTERISTICS

 Line   Type   Max    Baud   Flow Control  Parity  BPC  Modem     Port     T/P
Number          VC    Rate   <in>   <out>              Control   Number    Mode
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  0   Terminal  4     AUTO   NONE   XOFF    NONE    8    OFF         -       -
  1   Slave     1     9600   NONE   NONE    NONE    8    OFF         1     OFF
  2   Slave     1     9600   NONE   NONE    NONE    8    OFF         2     OFF
  3   Slave     1     9600   NONE   NONE    NONE    8    OFF         3     OFF
  4   Slave     1     9600   NONE   NONE    NONE    8    OFF         4     OFF
  5   Slave     1     9600   NONE   NONE    NONE    8    OFF        13     OFF
  6   Slave     1     9600   NONE   NONE    NONE    8    OFF         6     OFF
  7   Slave     1     9600   NONE   NONE    NONE    8    OFF        37     OFF
  8   Slave     1     9600   NONE   NONE    NONE    8    OFF         8     OFF
  9   Slave     1     9600   NONE   NONE    NONE    8    OFF        14     OFF
          
 10   Slave     1     9600   NONE   NONE    NONE    8    OFF        10     OFF
 11   Slave     1     9600   NONE   NONE    NONE    8    OFF       100     OFF
 12   Slave     1     9600   NONE   NONE    NONE    8    OFF        11     OFF
 13   Terminal  4     AUTO   NONE   XOFF    NONE    8    OFF         -       -
 14   Slave     1     9600   NONE   NONE    NONE    8    OFF        14     OFF
 15   Slave     1     9600   NONE   NONE    NONE    8    OFF        34     OFF
 16   Slave     1     9600   NONE   NONE    NONE    8    OFF        16     OFF
 17   Slave     1     9600   NONE   NONE    NONE    8    OFF        17     OFF

Note that not all these lines are valid, and davison (1) will soon be disconnected.

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