3com 5500-SI Manual De Usuario

This section contains information for SSH Terminal Services.

Secure Shell (SSH) can provide information security and powerful authentication to 
prevent such assaults as IP address spoofing, plain-text password interception when 
users log on to the Switch remotely using an insecure network environment. 

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A Switch can connect to multiple SSH clients. SSH 2.0 and SSH1.x are currently 
available. 

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SSH client functions to enable SSH connections between users and the Switch or 
UNIX host that support SSH server. 

Figure 47 and Figure 48 show respectively SSH connection establishment for client 
and server.

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SSH connections through LAN 

Figure 47   Establish SSH channels through LAN 

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SSH connections through WAN 

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Server

PC
SSH-Client

Ethernet

Workstation

Laptop

Switch
SSH-Server

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PC
SSH-Client

Ethernet

Workstation

Laptop

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SSH-Server