[rancid] Re: Tunneling Telnet connections

[Daniel Epstein]

An SSH tunnel would do it, but I'd imagine you have a firewall at each  
location. If both of these devices support IPSec VPNs, you could also  
setup a LAN to LAN VPN between sites.

Daniel G. Epstein (mobile)

On Jan 2, 2009, at 6:40, "Steve D. Ousley" <Steve at host-it.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi All
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> We manage 2 data centres, and have some switches in the second  
> (unmanned) data centre that are being backed up from our Rancid box  
> in the primary (manned) data centre.  What we would like though is  
> some secure way to get the configs from the remote data centre.  At  
> the moment, rancid logs in with Telnet, which is obviously unsecure,  
> and could be sniffed to gain our password.
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> Unfortunately due to these being Cisco 2960’s (without the K9 bundle 
> ) we cannot setup SSH to access these remotely, and for the 3 or 4 s 
> witches we have in the remote centre (at the moment) it is not worth 
>  setting up another rancid box for that.
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> I would like to know the best way to secure this, either maybe  
> through an SSH tunnel to a machine in the remote data centre or any  
> other ideas anyone has?
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> Regards
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> Steve Ousley - SO620-RIPE
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> Nuco Technologies Ltd
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