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Securing Connections Between a C-series Platform and Remote Hosts

For security reasons, take care to limit the number of open ports you configure for applications and SRC components on the external interfaces. To review the default port settings for SRC components, see Chapter 29, Defining an Initial Configuration on a Solaris Platform which provides information about an initial configuration on a Solaris platform.

By default, SSH for nonwhite users is enabled on C-series platforms. Otherwise, you configure the C-series platform to explicitly allow users on remote systems to access it. Table 8 lists the applications through which remote users can access a C-series platform.




Table 8: Applications to Remotely Access the C-series Platform
Application
Information About Access Configuration

SSH

Configuring a C-series Platform to Accept SSH Connections

Telnet

Configuring a C-series Platform to Accept Telnet Connections

NETCONF

Configuring a C-series Platform to Accept NETCONF Connections

C-Web interface

Chapter 6, Accessing and Starting the C-Web Interface

Policies, Services, and Subscribers CLI

Chapter 5, Accessing and Starting the SRC CLI

You can also configure security certificates for use by HTTPS connections.

See Chapter 7, Configuring Remote Access to a C-series Platform.

You can connect from a C-series platform to remote hosts through:


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