Enable Remote Access Services

Before you begin

  • When you enable the rlogin flag, you must configure an access policy to specify the user name of who can access the switch. For more information about the access policy commands, see Access Policies for Services.

    Note

    Note

    Rlogin is only supported on VSP 8600 Series.

About this task

Enable the remote access service to provide multiple methods of remote access.

File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) and Telnet server support both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, with no difference in functionality or configuration.

Procedure

  1. Enter Global Configuration mode:

    enable

    configure terminal

  2. Enable the access service:

    boot config flags {ftpd | rlogind | sshd | telnetd | tftpd}

  3. Repeat as necessary to activate the desired services.
  4. Save the configuration.

Example

Enable the access service for Telnet:

Switch:1>enable
Switch:1#configure terminal
Switch:1(config)#boot config flags telnetd

Variable Definitions

The following table defines parameters for the boot config flags command.

Table 1. Variable definitions

Variable

Value

ftpd

Enables the File Transfer Protocol remote-access service type. Use the no operator to remove this configuration. To configure this option to the default value, use the default operator with the command.

rlogind

Note:

Exception: only supported on VSP 8600 Series.

Enables the rlogin remote-access service type. Use the no operator to remove this configuration. To configure this option to the default value, use the default operator with the command.

spbm-config-mode

Enables you to configure SPB and IS-IS, but you cannot configure PIM and IGMP either globally or on an interface.

Use the no operator so that you can configure PIM and IGMP.

The boot flag is enabled by default. To set this flag to the default value, use the default operator with the command.

sshd

Enables the Secure Shell remote-access service type. Use the no operator to remove this configuration. To configure this option to the default value, use the default operator with the command.

telnetd

Enables the Telnet remote-access service type. Use the no operator to remove this configuration. To configure this option to the default value, use the default operator with the command.

tftpd

Enables the Trivial File Transfer Protocol remote-access service type. Use the no operator to remove this configuration. To configure this option to the default value, use the default operator with the command.
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