D-Link DGS-3324SRi Password Reset
18 April 14Bought a D-Link DGS-3324SRi Managed Layer 3 Gigabit switch off of ebay.
When I got around to actually using it (a few months later), and learned that username/password was other than default. Contacted the seller but he didn’t know the login info.
Searched a while on the internet, couldn’t find any info, except a hint to how it may be possible (although that info I found, related to a different D-Link switch). Anyway, that got me much farther, and to a solution.
Requirements:
- Serial Connection
- DGS-3324SRi (I haven’t tested this on other DGS-3324* switches, but it probably works on there)
Password (and Settings) reset:
- Connect Serial
- Turn On switch
- After POST, it will start to load runtime Image:
"Please wait, loading Vx.xx-xxx Runtime image ............ xx %"
- Press Shift-3 right when it gets to 100% (I believe it gives you a second or two after reaching 100%). If this doesn’t work, try pressing just before 100%. Immediately or a second after it, it will give you:
Do you want to load the default configuration? (y/n)
- Press ‘y’ to reset
- Let it boot now, and when it asks for username, press
twice (default username and password are blank) - Go ahead and create a new account:
create account admin USERNAME
- Enter the password and repeat for confirmation
- Now type
save
to write your settings to NV-RAM (very important, otherwise on reboot it will be back to your old account)