{"id":4728,"date":"2022-12-15T02:39:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T08:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/?p=4728"},"modified":"2022-12-14T21:41:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T03:41:47","slug":"what-is-cisco-vty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/what-is-cisco-vty\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Cisco VTY?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>vty stands for Virtual Teletype.  What is Teletype?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Teletype\">teletype<\/a>, or teleprinter, is a device used for communicating text over telegraph lines, public switched telephone network, Telex, radio, or satellite links.<\/p>\n<cite>Wikipedia explanation of teletype<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Teleprinter\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Teleprinter<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This means vty is essentially like a virtual computer screen plugged into the router that we can remotely access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both SSH and Telnet use this virtual monitor to let you see the router\/switch.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The command <\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">line vty 0 4<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Configures 5 of these virtual teletypes (vty&#8217;s) for us to use.  Can think of it having 5 monitors connected to the router.  When you SSH to it, you are claiming one of these monitors.  Cisco devices support up to a maximum of 16. 0-15<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>vty stands for Virtual Teletype. What is Teletype? The teletype, or teleprinter, is a device used for communicating text over telegraph lines, public switched telephone network, Telex, radio, or satellite links. Wikipedia explanation of teletype https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Teleprinter This means vty is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/what-is-cisco-vty\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[669,1],"tags":[1367,670,221,1375,1296],"class_list":["post-4728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking-3","category-uncategorized","tag-ccna","tag-cisco","tag-ssh","tag-teletype","tag-telnet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4728"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4732,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728\/revisions\/4732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}