More electronic recycling. This Watchguard M270 firewall, while is still supported and the latest code works on it, it was sent out for scrap! So let's take a closer look at it.
This device had customer data on it, I didn't know the password, nor the IP scheme. Next I attached to the console port, and rebooted it into the recovery mode, I didn't find a password reset option. So a factory reset had to be done.
1. Power off the Firebox.
2. Press and hold the Reset button on the back of the Firebox.
3. While you continue to hold the Reset button, power on the Firebox.
4. Continue to press the Reset button until the Attn indicator begins to flash.
5. Release the Reset button. ...
6. Wait for the reset process to complete.
Once done, open a web browser to https://10.0.1.1:8080, use credentials admin & readwrite
Sadly the feature keys for this product are now gone. I didn't realize the reset would wipe them. The box will not download it's key from the Watchguard mothership, it complains about being expired. Now the box is pretty much useless as a Watchguard, as it will only allow one client to get through the network. I have seen some people run PFsense on this hardware, so that could be an option.
Interesting observations:
-there is a way to get into the BIOS via the console cable, but no one seem to know the password. There is a way to re-flash it.
-CPU: Intel Atom C3558 @ 2.2ghz, 4 core, 4 threads, 16watt, BenchMark 2417
-Memory: 4gb RAM DDR3 sodimm
-Hard drive: 16gb mSATA
-Marvell 2.5gbps ports? I saw mentioning of this during boot, but that might be an internal switch or something, as from the command line and the GUI all the ports report as 1Gpbs
-the power supply is a "wall wart"....the big plastic transformer/power supply is actually inside of the case, and the barrel plug fits into the system board. Interesting! I guess it makes replacement simpler, and from installation point of view I'd rather rack a full width appliance vs. a smaller one and then have to deal with securing the external transformer/power supply somewhere else in the rack.
