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dabance
Altocumulus
AltocumulusSeeking Guidance on Enabling Telnet Access via SSH Proxy Using F5 BIG-IP LTM
Hello everyone, I'm currently facing a situation where a network device can only be managed using telnet for access, but our corporate policy restricts the use of telnet. I'm exploring a solution wh...
dabance I would not use your LTM as a SSH proxy, especially because the F5 will receive the traffic as SSH traffic and will not be able to switch to the telnet protocol instead. You're better off configuring a jumphost for everyone to use, installing telnet on that jumphost, and finally restricting management access to that jumphost IP. Having the SSH jumphost also allows you to track what each user does.
Paulius
MVP
MVPdabance I would not use your LTM as a SSH proxy, especially because the F5 will receive the traffic as SSH traffic and will not be able to switch to the telnet protocol instead. You're better off configuring a jumphost for everyone to use, installing telnet on that jumphost, and finally restricting management access to that jumphost IP. Having the SSH jumphost also allows you to track what each user does.