Enable remote access to alcatel switch

[Umer77]

Hello,

I am new to alcatel switching and i have an alcatel 6350.

I was wondering on how I can enable remote access on the switch to be able to portforward and access via the public IP address?

Any help will be appreciated.

[silvio]

Don't fully understand. Your switch has a public IP? Or is there a firewall with the public access and the switch is inside maybe within the DMZ)?
NAT is not possible at the switch - so port forwarding. You need a firewall that is forwarding for example ssh access to the private ip of the switch.
BR Silvio

[Umer77]

Hello,

Apologies I should have been more clear.

The switch is connected to a local network which has a firewall the switch has a local IP of 192.168.1.XX. The firewall can provide public access.

How can I enable SSH and then which port do i access this from remotely?

[Cristek]

SSH is usually enabled by default, but you can do it with "aaa authentication ssh local".

As for which port, it's up to you really. Assuming your public IP is aa.bb.cc.dd, you can set a NAT rule on your firewall that any traffic on port 12345 (or your favorite port) get's redirected (or forwarded, or dest-nat) into 192.168.1.xx and translated into port 22.
So, from the outside world you would connect to your switch via aa.bb.cc.dd via port 12345 and internally you'd still connect to 192.168.1.xx via port 22

[Umer77]

Thank you.

I have just attempted this and has worked first time!

Appreciate it.