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• Type the password for this administrator and press Enter.
The following prompt appears:
Type ? for a list of commands.
Connecting to the DFL-500 CLI using SSH
SSH provides strong secure authentication and secure communications to the DFL-500 CLI over your internal
network or the Internet. Once the DFL-500 is configured to accept SSH connections, you can run an SSH
client on your management computer and use this client to connect to the DFL-500 CLI.
Accepting SSH connections
To use the web-based manager to configure the DFL-500 to accept SSH connections, see Controlling
management access to the DFL-500.
The following procedure describes how to use the CLI to configure the DFL-500 to accept SSH connections:
• Connect to the CLI using the DFL-500 communications port and your terminal emulation software.
• To configure the internal interface to accept SSH connections. Enter:
set system access internal ssh enable
• To configure the external interface to accept SSH connections. Enter:
set system access external ssh enable
• To confirm that you have configured SSH access correctly, enter the following command to view the
access settings for all of the interfaces:
get system access
The following response shows that you can connect to the internal interface using SSH as well as HTTPS,
that you can connect to the external interface using SSH, and that all of the interfaces will respond to a
ping request.
internal: HTTPS,PING,SSH
external: PING,SSH
Connecting to the CLI using SSH
To connect to the CLI using SSH you must install an SSH client.
• Start the SSH client and connect to a DFL-500 interface that is configured for SSH connections.
The following prompt appears:
D-Link login:
• Type a valid administrator name and press Enter.
• Type the password for this administrator and press Enter.
The following prompt appears:
Type ? for a list of commands.
You have connected to the DFL-500 CLI, and you can proceed to enter CLI commands as if you have
connected through the DFL-500 communications port.
CLI basics
This section describes the basics of using the DFL-500 CLI to enter commands.
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