Re: SSH on the router - was( IT security people sleep well)

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and all the other things single points of failure need. like pixie dust, chicken entrails, ... Where did the word "single" come from, given he had an "s" on gateways? Replicate them across POPs

glib, but ignores the massive cost and bureaucratic insanity it takes to install yet one more box in a real pop. we already go through that for the out-of-band and serial console management device(s). we have in-band access; so one uses the in-band for ssh to devices; with acls, of course. telnet stopped being an option before most of the readers of nanog ever met a router. randy