Cisco – Download startup config from Cisco device using SCP

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I can successfully download the config from Juniper network devices using SCP – I'd like to do the same for a Cisco router.

SSH access is already working, and I've enabled SCP using ip scp server enable. Problem is that I don't know the name or location of the file I need to download, and GUI tools like WinSCP don't seem to work (complains that I need a BASH shell).

Is this possible for Cisco devices?

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Cisco doesn't require scp enabled to copying from itself.Enough to properly configure ssh server on remote machine.

FreeBSD

vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config --skip-- PasswordAuthentication yes## uncomment this line

Then run from Cisco device:

Router#copy startup-config scp://user:pass@host/filename`

File will be saved in your home dir.

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I am not quite sure what you want, but if you just want to map port 80 of an external to ip to an internal ip port 80. I think you pretty much have it, but I think you might just need to change:

ip nat inside source static tcp  80 10.10.10.60 80 extendable

ip nat inside source static tcp 98.123.123.94 80 10.10.10.60 80 extendable

But besides this, if this is production, once you have it working the way you think you want. You might want to pay a consultant to come in and check your work, it doesn't get much more important than the router.

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I believe it's possible to copy a file from flash: to running-config, but I am not 100% sure. You may be better off copying the existing running-config to a known-good-startup, copying the config you want on top of startup-config, then reload the router (with, ideally, somneone on site who can be walked through a password-recovery-style recovery, should the new config be broken).

Alternatively, if the relevant config can be comfortably fit in a single TCP frame, you could write some code to issue a reload in 10 command, then a config t and finish off with all relevant config commands, separated by CR NL, in a single frame.

Edit: Then either log on to the router manually or send a second frame with enough commands in it to cancel the reload (the relevant IOS command is reload cancel).

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