More than 5 line vty on a 3640 router

[j.nielsen]

Does anyone know how to increase more than 5 line vty on a 3640 router running IOS 12.1(11) ?

[s-doyle]

Use line vty xxx (xxx being the numerical value of vty lines) in global configuration to set the number of lines to use. line vty ? will tell you how many you can configure but I think it’s in the hundreds (sorry, don’t have a 3600 in my lab to test it on).

[j.nielsen]

Hi Doyle

I have already tried this - and my router says the

following : line vty <0-4> !!!!

Any other suggestions ?

[mssearle]

There are only 5 VTY lines availalble for telnet access to any IOS router. These are numbered from 0 to 4. You can configure either one or a range of these. You can allow or restrict access to them, however, you cannot increase or decrease how many VTYs you have.

[jpelletier]

I agree with mssearle, I'm just about certain that you cannot increase the number(0 thru 4), I have worked with this and have found it to be true.

[kevin]

That first post was correct, just type

line vty XX

and the vty's will be added. You will see them listed seperately in the config

ie.

line vty 0 4

...

line vty 5 9

works every time.

[kevtown]

Actually it doesn't work every time. On some devices you need the "Enterprise" image if you wish to support more than 5 vty lines.

Here is my source for this info.

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/129/28.shtml#4