[j-nsp] ability to turn USB port on/off for MX routing engine?

[joel jaeggli]

You can turn off/on the alarm and warn circuits via the craft interface, 
which might do what you want, could use that to drive a relay.

joel

On 3/19/13 11:50 AM, Morgan McLean wrote:
> I can see turning off USB from a security stand point, like disabling
> console too....but then again in the event of needing to restore the device
> that could be a big problem.
>
> AND, if they have physical access, the war is already lost.
>
> ...Also, I don't think you should really be powering devices with your
> routers? Just an opinion. Not exactly what its designed for.
>
> Morgan
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Clarke Morledge <chmorl at wm.edu> wrote:
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>> To answer my own question, I found out from JTAC that the ability to turn
>> off the power to the USB port on an MX routing engine is not possible
>> because it is "not supported".
>>
>> I thought Junos was built on FreeBSD.   Aren't you supposed to be able to
>> do just about anything you want with FreeBSD?
>>
>>
>> Clarke Morledge
>> College of William and Mary
>> Information Technology - Network Engineering
>> Jones Hall (Room 18)
>> Williamsburg VA 23187
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