SSH clients

SSH clients must be FIPS 186-4-compliant. You can use the OpenSSH-based client that is developed by Extreme to be FIPS 186-4-compliant.

When doing SCP of a file from MLX device using OpenSSH, please do the following:

• Use following command to do th SCP transfer on the client. The default for channel bandwidth is 8192kbits/sec. This prevents SCP to stall. scp-vvv-|8192 <username>@<MLX IP>:slot1|2|flash:<filename>
• Add ServerAliveInterval and ServerAliveCountMax options to ssh_config to prevent SCP termination due to broken pipe error, which can occur due to server inactivity. The error can also occur due to duplication in MLX IP addresses.