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Cisco® Field Manual: Catalyst® Switch Configuration
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Cisco® Field Manual: Catalyst® Switch Configuration

by Dave Hucaby, Steve McQuerry
October 2002
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
12h 13m
English
Cisco Press
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11-7. SSH Telnet Configuration

  • Telnet connections to the switch take place over TCP port 23 and are transmitted in plain text.

  • If someone with a network analyzer captures packets going to a server, he can see the data transmitted in plain text, including the passwords.

  • Secure Shell (SSH) is a method of communicating through Telnet that encrypts packets before they are transmitted between devices.

  • SSH runs on TCP port 22 between a SSH-compatible client and a device configured to accept SSH connections.

  • Cisco switches support SSH version 1 only.

  • To implement SSH on your switch, it must be Crypto-compatible code.

  • By default SSH is disabled on the switch and must be enabled before clients can connect.

Configuration

To provide secure Telnet communications ...

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