October 2002
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
12h 13m
English
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.
To provide secure Telnet communications ...
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