Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect EC-S is a rebranded Lanner FW-7585A:
Historically, Silver Peak devices were next to impossible to repurpose due to the combination of BIOS passwords, bypasses, and watchdogs, but recently, there were a few successful attempts to dump BIOS and extract passwords, so I tried those passwords. In my case, the password was Cheyenne1
; on newer devices, it may be Kilimanjaro1
instead (can you sense a theme yet?).
Out of the box, the device has a Xeon E3-1268L v3 processor, 16 GB RAM, a pair of 480 GB SATA SSDs, and a 2 GB CF card (Silver Peak puts the core OS onto the CF card, while the SSDs hold the bells and whistles). No video output, so serial installer is needed (we are still using the old-style 2.7.2 installer, upgrading to 2.8.* post-install). Networking is all Intel; all controllers are i211, except the rightmost port, which is i217-LM. Seven i211 controllers are designated igb0
to igb6
left-to-right, the lone i217-LM controller is em0
.
To get the device to run pfSense:
Del
), and disable the watchdog (Advanced >> Watchdog mode >> Disabled). Change the console speed to 115200 (Advanced >> Serial Port Console Redirection >> Console Redirection Settings >> Bits per second >> 115200).The device is very cooperative once you have the correct BIOS password... :)