IRF basic doubt

[Nicolausf]

A basic doubt about stack configuration.

Do i need to set password to authenticate console login on the slave appliance?

User-interface commands seems to be disabled...

Thanks for help.

Nicola

[cyndering]

Should have same access on all console ports of the irf stack.  what hardware? Comware 5 or 7?

[Peter_Debruyne · Accepted solution]

yes, this can be confusing in the beginning.

The aux port ID follows the IRF member ID, but -1.

So switch IRF ID 1 has aux 0, ID 3 has aux 2 etc.

So yes, you need to configure the console port of each member if you want security.

The default config of most people (user-int aux 0) only secures the switch ID 1 of the IRF system.

If you have an IRF with units 1,2,3,4 you can just use a range like for the vty:

user-int aux 0 3

 auth scheme

Provisioning is not supported, so you can only configure the console ports of the devices which are actually online.

Hope this clarifies the config,

Best regards,Peter

[Nicolausf]

Thanks for your help...
For information hardware is 5120ei

Best Regards
Nicola