Switch – Cisco IOS built-in SSH client default version

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You issue the command ssh 192.168.97.97 from a IOS device and the destination IOS router/switch SSH server is accepting both SSH versions. Being that you did not specify a version to use on the SSH client, which version of SSH will be used to connect to the IOS SSH server?

Best Answer

ssh version 2 for IOS 12.1(19)E and later

SSH from one switch to another... for reasons I can't explain, Cisco calls SSHv2 SSH-1.99...

SRV1#debug ip ssh client
SSH Client debugging is on
SRV1#ssh 10.19.1.2

Password:
Jun  4 13:45:28.747 CDT: SSH1: sent protocol version id SSH-1.99-Cisco-1.25   <-----
Jun  4 13:45:28.787 CDT: SSH CLIENT0: protocol version id is - SSH-1.99-Cisco-1.25
Jun  4 13:45:28.787 CDT: SSH CLIENT0: sent protocol version id SSH-1.99-Cisco-1.25

Also from linux when connecting to IOS...

[mpenning@something ~]$ ssh -v dst1
OpenSSH_5.3p1, OpenSSL 1.0.0-fips 29 Mar 2010
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: Applying options for *
debug1: Connecting to dst1 [10.19.1.1] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file /home/mpenning/.ssh/identity type -1
debug1: identity file /home/mpenning/.ssh/id_rsa type 1
debug1: identity file /home/mpenning/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
debug1: Remote protocol version 1.99, remote software version Cisco-1.25     <-------
debug1: no match: Cisco-1.25
debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0                         <--------
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.3
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