Well, on a whim I just tried this without the rotary group and it seems to
work just fine on IOS 12.07T on a 2501.
So this will work too, the previous example works, but why complicate
things. (I would have sworn that this wouldn't have.)
enable password cisco
line vty 0 25
password cisco
login
Hey, you learn something new every day.
Rodgers Moore
""Rodgers Moore"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Well there's a trick to allow more than 5 telnets to a Cisco router.
Cisco
> routers support more than 5 vty ports you just have to configure them
before
> they show in the config. By default you can only telnet directly to vty's
> 0 -> 4. The trick is to place VTy's 5 through 29 (or whatever) in a
rotary
> group (let's say 1) so then you can telnet to the router's IP, but to
port
> 3001 (the rotary port for group 1). However the "ip alias" command let's
us
> map an ip address to a port number, so there's a way to hide port 3001
from
> the end user(s). The config to allow 25 users to telnet to the router
would
> look something like this: (oh, and everyone telnets to 192.168.1.1 and
the
> host(s) must have a default route or route to the router for network
> 192.168.1.0)
>
> enable cisco
> interface loopback 0
> ip address 192.168.1.2 255.255.255.0
>
> ip alias 192.168.1.1 3001 (note: part of the loopback network)
>
> line vty 5 29
> rotary 1
> password cisco
> login
>
> Enjoy, there's nothing like a little slight-of-hand....
>
> Rodgers Moore, CCDP, CCNP-Security
> Design and Security Consultant
> Data Processing Sciences, Corp.
>
> "jason yee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > hi ,
> > I am a instructor currently delivering CCNA course.The
> > setup of the classroom consists of 2 routers but I
> > have got 24 students telnetting to the 2 routers . I
> > have problems for them telnetting to the routers
> > because the max no of connections for the telnet
> > sessions are 5 , my question is how can I increase the
> > no. of connections so as to accomodate all the
> > students without buying more routers.
> >
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > suaveguru
> >
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