Logging in to a Raymarine plotter over the network?

[maby]

OK - I was sitting in the boat a little bored this afternoon and with a PC open on my lap. I tried pinging the IP address of the eS series plotter on our network and it responded, so I tried telnetting to it - and it invited me to log in! I tried a few random user IDs and passwords without success - anyone got any inside information on the subject? There's an FTP server running on there too - but not accepting anonymous connections. The interactions seem pretty Unixesque... I wonder what you can do once you get into it?

 

[prv]

I would assume it's a fairly standard Linux box running a Raymarine application to do the plotter stuff. Could be ARM, but my gut feel is probably x86.

nmap would tell you what other ports it's listening on - and can often hazard a guess at the OS too by noting telltale details about how it responds.

Pete

 

[maby]

Without a user ID and password, it is rather academic! I did also try pointing an XTerm at it and it looked like it might be running xdmcp.

 

[laika]

You should try asking Raymarine what all those open ports are for...
http://stripydog.blogspot.co.uk/2014_01_01_archive.html

fwiw last time I looked at this 2 years ago there was a root account which had a password and is enabled for direct login. The hash string is extractable from Raymarine's firmware updates so anyone with a bunch of GPUs or prepared to pony up a few bucks for some time with a cracking service might investigate further. Nice to know you've been sold a device which has credentials that you haven't been told?

But hey, Raymarine argue that boat networks never connect to the Internet so this is a non-issue...

 

[Halo]

I think you get a Raymarine dongle with USB that will connect you

 

[Cardo]

I'd imagine part of the open services is to allow Navionics and the like to connect to it.

 

[maby]

I'd imagine part of the open services is to allow Navionics and the like to connect to it.

I'm sure it is. And to allow Raymarine's own applications to get in. I wish they would publish an API and let the rest of us develop applications - the things they offer work, but they are a bit clunky at times. I would like a RayRemote type application that runs on a proper PC to have down on the chart table. Updating charts via the Navionics application on my Android mobile phone is a bit of a hit-and-miss affair too - let's be able to do it via a PC instead!