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                           | PACESETTER Pro Fundamentals |
                           |        By: G|GAWH0RE        |
                           |       xymox@yifan.net       |
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Y0 what's up guys this is G|GAWH0RE.  I figured I would write a little thing
about the PACESETTERS since as far as I know there aren't any articles out
there covering these bad boys and because by my estimates and experience
it is possible to gain administrator access very easily on 90-95% of all
PACESETTERS.  That should be enough to make you want to read on about the
router nobody knows about!

..::::General Information
The PACESETTER Pro is a router used in small to medium sized offices that
want a fast connection to a LAN along with some sweet Internet access.
The PACESETTER also comes in two versions a U.S. one (Model 76910) and a
European one (Model 76922).  The only difference in the two models is their
ISDN interfaces and WAN connectors which we don't need to concern ourselves
with as the only access we probably want to mess with is on the Internet.
Both models offer all types of ports for things such as LANs, WANs, x.25
packet switching, etc.  One last thing you should know about that will
help you out immensely and is why you are able to get admin access on so
many of these suckers.  When shipped out, the PACESETTER comes with a
default password which is publically known but not many people know what
it is unless you own a PACESETTER.  Well guess what?  Lucky you the
password is secret! Yes, using the password "secret" will pop you into admin
access on the router and then you can play around to your hearts content
on the little thing.  Most of the ones I have come across, (there are a
bunch in co.kr :)) have not even got rid of the password or changed it!
Onward...

..::::IP Filtering$#@?
Yes, the PACESETTER offers IP filtering as a security measure of course.
You can set IP filtering not only on physical ports but also on logical
ones such as the SNMP port.  What the filters do is block or forward data
transmissions that come into the ports based on wether or not the data
matches the criteria that has been setup.  The filtering options can be a
combination of source and destination IP addresses, or IP traffic types
such as TCP, UDP and ICMP.  The IP filtering offered on these routers is
just basically the same type you would setup on your linux box if you
wanted it's just being setup on a router.

..::::Jacking In
As soon as you are connected to the PACESETTER you are presented
with a prompt to pick the "Control Port" or number 1 on the router.  Once
chosen you are presented with a sort of opening screen detailing the
make and model of the router and prompted for the password.  This is
where the magic word comes into play.  Type in "secret" (without the
quotes for the slow people) and hopefully you will get in with admin privs
and be presented with what is called the "Supervisor screen" which is sort
of the main menu for the router.  To go back to a previous menu from
anywhere in the router just hit the Esc key and it will take you back one
menu at a time.  Online help is available for some menu options.  It
appears close to the option or at the bottom as a ?.  After you are done
reading the help just press the Esc key to go back to the menu you were
at.  Also, after you have made all the changes you are going to make you
need to enter "Y" in the process selections field.  No matter where you
are on the screen pressing the left cursor key once or twice moves you to
the process selections field.  If you haven't filled out the menu 
completely and hit process selection the cursor will automatically move
back to the field which was not filled in completely or wrong.  ::sighs::
that was a mouth full!  

..::::System Logs
Yes there are system logs on the PACESETTER but you need not worry.
Cleaning the logs is a snap.  From the Main Menu just hit 1 - Status then
7 - Log Status.  The two system logs are volatile and nonvolatile logs.
The nonvolatile logs records events such as system restarts. The volatile
log records most of the other happenings and, as the name implies is reset
and erased when power is cut from the PACESETTER.  The nonvolatile logs
are stored in flash memory.  There are 3 logging levels which can be set
depending on how much you would like to know about what's going on.  
"Alert" is the first level, the lowest level in which the fewest events
are recorded.  Next is warn-ing and then Debug in which the most events
are recorded. This is set in the System Parameters Menu.  Nonvolatile as
you probably would figure out can be saved by capturing the terminal or
whatever.  The volatile log messages can be echoed to a syslog server for
later inspection if wanted. 

..::::In Conclusion
Well, as you can see this was a very basic article about the PACESETTER
Pro.  I hope I didn't make it too boring and that this article leaves
you interested enough to get into one and just fool around with it and see
what you can see.  HAVE FUN#$@!