> As the OP here's the background story. > > At work we manage several thousand switches and routers. > We're replacing our management platform with a new one. > There is an internal requirement to NEVER use clear text protocols. > > So to put a new IOS image on a Cisco device we use SCP. > > The new management app has two features: > it has the Cisco devices pull configs, images, everything > its default port for serving these resources is 8022 > > Complicating factors: > > The Cisco devices cannot be configured to SCP to a different port than 22[1] > We do normal management via ssh - aka port 22 > > In order to not confuse the beejesus out of all the groups that currently ssh > to boxes we are loath to move SSH to a non-standard port. > > Therefore: > > We want to have the incoming port 22 connection from switches and routers (we > know the IPs involved) redirected to port 8022 to connect with the management > app software. > > > [1] If you know otherwise and how, please share.
you can easily change the port a cisco listens on for ssh/scp, but it sounds like you are doing a: copy startup-config scp:... type thing? have you tried something like: copy startup-config scp://u...@host:port/file _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
