Setup Telnet Access on Force10 Switches

I am going to use a Force10 S60 switch [FTOS 8.3.3.4] to demonstrate how to setup telnet access. To setup telnet access you first need to set an IP address on either a data port or a managment port so you can access it with telnet. Since the S60 has a management port, I’m going to use that. The commands I would enter would be:

– enable
– conf
– interface managementethernet 1/0
– ip address 10.10.15.130/24
– no shut

Now I will need to setup a default route so I can access the switch from the internet. Assuming my switch has a gateway address of 10.10.15.254/24, I would enter the following commands:

– enable
– conf
– management route 0.0.0.0/0 10.10.15.254

I next setup a user and an authentication list that will be used for telnet access. Below is an example in which I use local username authentication:

– enable
– config
– username testuser password testpassword privilege 15
– aaa authentication login localmethod local

Now, I enable telnet access on the vty lines and enable authentication using the authentication list I created in the prior step:

– enable
– config
– line vty 0 9
-login authentication localmethod

I make sure to save my configuration using “write mem”. I can now access the switch via telnet.