Client and Server Support

Table 1. Client and Server product support

Feature

Product

Release introduced

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server and client (IPv4)

5320 Series

Fabric Engine 8.6

5420 Series

VOSS 8.4

5520 Series

VOSS 8.2.5

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server and client (IPv6)

5320 Series

Fabric Engine 8.6

5420 Series

VOSS 8.4

5520 Series

VOSS 8.2.5

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) (IPv4)

5320 Series

Fabric Engine 8.6

5420 Series

VOSS 8.4

5520 Series

VOSS 8.2.5

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) (IPv6)

5320 Series

Fabric Engine 8.6

5420 Series

VOSS 8.4

5520 Series

VOSS 8.2.5

Remote Login (Rlogin) server/client (IPv4)

5320 Series

Not Supported

5420 Series

Not Supported

5520 Series

Not Supported

Rlogin server (IPv6)

5320 Series

Not Supported

5420 Series

Not Supported

5520 Series

Not Supported

Rlogin client (IPv6)

5320 Series

Not Supported

5420 Series

Not Supported

5520 Series

Not Supported

Remote Shell (RSH) server/client

5320 Series

Not Supported

5420 Series

Not Supported

5520 Series

Not Supported

Secure Copy (SCP)

Note:

The switch does not support the WinSCP client.

5320 Series

Fabric Engine 8.6

5420 Series

VOSS 8.4

5520 Series

VOSS 8.2.5

Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) server (IPv4)

5320 Series

Fabric Engine 8.6

5420 Series

VOSS 8.4

5520 Series

VOSS 8.2.5

Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) server (IPv6)

5320 Series

Fabric Engine 8.6

5420 Series

VOSS 8.4

5520 Series

VOSS 8.2.5

Telnet server and client (IPv4)

5320 Series

Fabric Engine 8.6

5420 Series

VOSS 8.4

5520 Series

VOSS 8.2.5

Telnet server and client (IPv6)

5320 Series

Fabric Engine 8.6

5420 Series

VOSS 8.4

5520 Series

VOSS 8.2.5

Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) server and client (IPv4)

5320 Series

Fabric Engine 8.6

5420 Series

VOSS 8.4

5520 Series

VOSS 8.2.5

TFTP server (IPv6)

5320 Series

Fabric Engine 8.6

5420 Series

VOSS 8.4

5520 Series

VOSS 8.2.5

TFTP client (IPv6)

5320 Series

Fabric Engine 8.6

5420 Series

VOSS 8.4

5520 Series

VOSS 8.2.5

Table 2. Secure Shell product support

Feature

Product

Release introduced

Secure Shell (SSH) server (IPv4)

5320 Series

Fabric Engine 8.6

5420 Series

VOSS 8.4

5520 Series

VOSS 8.2.5

Secure Shell (SSH) client (IPv4)

5320 Series

Fabric Engine 8.6

5420 Series

VOSS 8.4

5520 Series

VOSS 8.2.5

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate management

5320 Series

Fabric Engine 8.6

5420 Series

VOSS 8.4

5520 Series

VOSS 8.2.5

SSH server (IPv6)

5320 Series

Fabric Engine 8.6

5420 Series

VOSS 8.4

5520 Series

VOSS 8.2.5

SSH client (IPv6)

5320 Series

Fabric Engine 8.6

5420 Series

VOSS 8.4

5520 Series

VOSS 8.2.5

SSH client disable

5320 Series

Fabric Engine 8.6

5420 Series

VOSS 8.4

5520 Series

VOSS 8.2.5

SSH key sizes in multiples of 1024

5320 Series

Fabric Engine 8.6

5420 Series

VOSS 8.4

5520 Series

VOSS 8.2.5

SSH rekey

5320 Series

Fabric Engine 8.6

5420 Series

VOSS 8.4

5520 Series

VOSS 8.2.5

The client-server model partitions tasks between servers that provide a service and clients that request a service.

For active CLI clients, users initiate a client connection from the switch to another device.

Note

Note

Both FTP and TFTP clients are supported by the switch. The switch does not launch FTP and TFTP clients explicitly as a separate command; you can launch them through the CLI copy command. If you have configured the username through the boot config host command, the FTP client is used to transfer files to and from the switch using the CLI copy command; If you have not configured the username, the TFTP client is used to transfer files to and from the switch using the CLI copy command.

Configuring the boot config flags ftpd or boot config flags tftpd enables the FTP or TFTP Servers on the switch.

For non-active clients, the client exists on the switch and the switch console initiates the request, with no intervention from users after the initial setup. For instance, Network Time Protocol (NTP) is a non active client. The switch initiates the client request to the central server to obtain the up-to-date time.