I am trying to configure a banner for a Catalyst 3560 Switch running IOS 12.2(44)SE5. I am using banner login instead of banner motd or banner exec because my transport protocol is SSH v2 and I want the banner to be displayed before the password is prompted. The problem is, I want to use the variables $(line-desc) and $(hostname) in the banner body and they seem to work only when I use banner motd or banner exec but not when using banner login. Why could this be happening? Is there a known solution or workaround for this? I used the same login banner on two different Cisco IOS Routers and the variables work fine.
