Should Virtual lines start always in 0?

[Mary Leon]

Hello everyone,

I'm practicing in a 2960 with Packet Tracer. I wanted to test virtual lines access with ssh version 2.

I tried setting from 2 to 10 with 

#line vty 2 10 

and it doesn't work. I'm asked about password, but I never log in, even when I'm sure password is correct.

But if I try from 0 to 10 it does work.

#line vty 0 10

It's true all examples I read about start in 0. Is it mandatory or I'm missing something?

Thank you in advance.

[Georg Pauwen]

Hello,

what exactly are you configuring the lines for ? For SSH/Telnet ? What are you trying to accomplish ?

[Mary Leon]

I wanted to use the virtual lines to access via ssh.

Thank you again.

[paul driver · Accepted solution]

Hello
On real hardware by default lines 0 4 are used by default, if you want telnet/ssh on to a specific vty line then you can enable that line and then append a rotary value to it and connect on that value,I very much doubt you can do this in PT.

Example:
line vty 10

transport input telnet
rotary 99

telnet x.x.x.x 3099

[Mary Leon]

Hello, Paul,

Thank you very much for your time.

I had to look up for that rotary command I never used before. So it seems it might be a limitation of Packet Tracer because in your experience with physical devices it is possible to configure access via ssh in virtual lines without starting the range in 0. Did I get it right?

Thank you again.

[paul driver · Accepted solution]

Hello
yes that is correct you can specify which vty line to use -rotary provides an example of that