Configuring an ACL on VTY Lines (Telnet/SSH)

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In this video I explain and show you how to configure an Access Control List (ACL) and apply it to your VTY Lines (Telnet or SSH).

Configuring SSH is a must, never use TELNET!
After applying the basic configuration to get SSH up and running, technically anyone with IP reachability to the router or switch can potentially connect to it via SSH. If they have the credentials and malicious intent then they can do whatever they want.

Allowing users to SSH to a network device from any IP can be a security concern for some organizations. To address this you can restrict who access the VTY lines on a device by applying an ACL inbound on those VTY's.
You can also control the destinations that the VTY's from a router can reach by applying an access list to outbound VTY's but I only focus on inbound in this video.

When you apply an ACL to VTY lines, it's done by using the "access-class" command. You then reference a specific ACL and a particular direction (in or out).

The configuration for the extended access control list I used in this video is:

enable
conf t
ip access-list extended SSH-ACCESS
permit tcp 10.140.1.0 0.0.0.255 any eq 22
deny tcp any any log

I then applied it line VTY 0 15 on my router by using:

line vty 0 15
access-class SSH-ACCESS in

This allowed SSH from a specific subnet only.

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