Ok, not new information but kind of new information to share.

Back in June during Cisco Live Orlando 2013 during the session BRKARC-2003 –  Cisco ASR9000 System Architecture there where some slides that discussed a couple new ASR9000 series routers, the ASR9904 and ASR9912.

The ASR9904 is supposed to be released in October ’13,  and that happens to also coincide with the rumored IOS-XR 5.1 release of code.  Well, to date only the ASR9912 has been announced ( http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps13288/index.html ), but with the recent release of the IOS-XR 5.1 Release Notes on Cisco’s website, the ASR9904 is listed there as can be seen in a snippet from that file:  ( the original pdf release notes can be found here http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/routers/asr9000/software/asr9k_r5.1/general/release/notes/reln_510a9k.pdf )

]]>https://hugo.fryguy.net/2012/09/12/ios-xr-remote-access-services-telnet-and-ssh/Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:04:55 +0000Fryguyhttps://hugo.fryguy.net/2012/09/12/ios-xr-remote-access-services-telnet-and-ssh/

We need to have a way to remote access this device, and by default SSH and TELNET are not enabled.
First up, the easy one – telnet.
RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:R1(config)#telnet ipv4 server max-servers 10
And like that, we can telnet.
Ok, onto SSH – but before setting up SSH, we need to generate an RSA key. This is a bit different as you do not do this from config mode.
First up, add your domain-name if you do not have one:
RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:R1(config)#domain name fryguy.net
RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:R1(config)#commit
RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:R1#crypto key generate rsa
Sat Apr 21 00:36:07.790 UTC
The name for the keys will be: the_default
Choose the size of the key modulus in the range of 512 to 2048 for your General Purpose Keypair. Choosing a key modulus greater than 512 may take a few minutes.
How many bits in the modulus [1024]: 2048
Generating RSA keys …
Done w/ crypto generate keypair
[OK]
RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:R1#