New to SSH

[hornbeck]

Is there a Cisco ssh client I need to download? We are a windows 2003 network. If you could direct me to how to setup ssh on a cisco ios, I would be greatly appreciated. TIA, Gary

[stomasko]

You can use any freeware SSH client such as Putty.

Here is a good webpage for configuration and troubleshooting IOS based SSH.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6350/products_configuration_guide_chapter09186a00804fdef2.html

Hope this helps.

Steve

[hornbeck]

Thanks Steve, the infor thus far has been very helpful. I am working in a cs-4506 and it takes the aaa new-model command and I was able to create an account and password....I only ran into a problem on step three...

Its says:

cry key generate rsa

Problem is in config t mode, cry is not an option???

[Richard Burts]

Gary

It sounds like the feature set of the software running on your device may not include support for SSH. If you post the output of show version we might be able to verify this.

HTH

Rick

[hornbeck]

Thanks Steve...here it is. Gary

COS4506#sh ver

Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software

IOS (tm) Catalyst 4000 L3 Switch Software (cat4000-I9S-M), Version 12.1(19)EW1,

EARLY DEPLOYMENT RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

TAC Support: http://www.cisco.com/tac

Copyright (c) 1986-2003 by cisco Systems, Inc.

Compiled Mon 28-Jul-03 16:10 by eaarmas

Image text-base: 0x00000000, data-base: 0x00F12E30

ROM: 12.1(20r)EW1

Dagobah Revision 86, Swamp Revision 3

COS4506 uptime is 6 weeks, 3 days, 17 hours, 32 minutes

System returned to ROM by power-on

System image file is "bootflash:cat4000-i9s-mz.121-19.EW1.bin"

cisco WS-C4506 (XPC8245) processor (revision 4) with 262144K bytes of memory.

Processor board ID FOX08090107

Last reset from PowerUp

50 Gigabit Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)

511K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.

Configuration register is 0x2102

[Richard Burts]

Gary

I checked the Software Advisor on CCO and it does not show support for SSH in your version of code. According to the Software Advisor the version closest to what you are running that would suppport SSH ver 1 is this:

12.1(20)EW3 cat4000-i9k2s-mz.12.1-20.EW3

If you feel that it is worth upgrading the code to get SSH support you should consider whether to go to this version or to a version that is a bit newer.

But it looks like you will not get SSH without upgrading the code.

HTH

Rick

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