======================================================================= Alcatel-Lucent Traning Manual containing secret messages in hexadecimal ======================================================================= A textbook author, now a professor in this department, wanted to make sure he got credit for working on a training manual, so he altered sequences of inconsequential hexadecimal to spell out his identifying information. Find his secret messages by decoding the ASCII characters: Page 70: *A:Router1# show boot-messages Boot log started on CPU#0 Build: X-6.1.R5 on Sun Dec 14 14:22:12 PST 2008 by builder CPUCTL FPGA version: 2C Boot rom version is v29 >>>Testing mainboard FPGA chain... >>>Validating SDRAM from 0x4D696368 to 0x61656C20 >>>Testing SDRAM from 0x416E6465 to 0x72736F6E >>>Testing Compact Flash 1... Slot Empty >>>Testing Compact Flash 2... Slot Empty >>>Testing Compact Flash 3... OK (SILICONSYSTEMS INC 256MB) Page 272: *B:PE1# show router arp IP Address MAC Address Expiry Type Interface ------------------------------------------------------------ 140.10.0.1 00:21:05:4d:41:41 00h00m00s Oth system 140.10.0.11 00:21:05:4d:41:41 00h00m00s Oth loopbackTest 140.10.0.97 00:1a:f0:57:72:6f 00h00m00s Oth[I] toPE2 140.10.0.98 00:1a:f0:74:65:41 03h59m27s Dyn[I] toPE2 140.10.0.101 00:1a:f0:6c:6c:4c 00h00m00s Oth[I] toCE1 140.10.0.102 00:1a:f0:61:62:73 03h39m52s Dyn[I] toCE1 ------------------------------------------------------------ No. of ARP Entries: 6 -- | Ian! D. Allen - idallen@idallen.ca - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | Home Page: http://idallen.com/ Contact Improv: http://contactimprov.ca/ | College professor (Free/Libre GNU+Linux) at: http://teaching.idallen.com/ | Defend digital freedom: http://eff.org/ and have fun: http://fools.ca/