Telnet to PIX through outside interface

[hucuncu]

Is there a way to telnet into PIX frewall through the outside interface?

SSH is a valid method to access in, however I wonder if there is another way of doing it. PDM is another tool for the access and changing the configuration.

Any help will be useful.

Best wishes,

Onur

[Nairi Adamian]

You can telnet to the outside interface of pix if you are coming through a vpn tunnel.

Hope this helps,

-Nairi

[scottmac · Accepted solution]

I'm pretty sure that Telent directly to the outside interface of a PIX is not available. It's such a big security risk that it isn't offered as an option.

SSH is a much better way to go (even if it is only SSH1).

You could probably VPN into your network and Telnet from the inside.

Good Luck

Scott

[jekrauss]

As mentioned, you can telnet to the outside, if you're coming through a VPN tunnel, so it's as secure as your IPSec encryption. Nevertheless, I'd agree that ssh is a much better solution.

Jeff

[hucuncu]

Thank you for all.

SSH seems the best.

Best wishes,

Onur

[kdurrett]

You can telnet directly to the outside interface but only through a vpn connection. Unless you only have des on your pix which is 56 bit, then ssl's 128 bit encryption is a better choice if you dont wanna cough up the $ for the 3 des license. Otherwise with 3des (168 bit) or soon to be released AES(192, 256 bit) encrytpion, you decide.

kdurrett