Allied Telesis AT-S60 - Manual (Page 533)

AT-S60 Management Software User’s Guide
Section V: Security Features 533
This is shown in Figure 170. The figure shows an SSH management
workstation that is managing a slave switch of an enhanced stack. The
packets exchanged between the slave switch and the master switch are
transmitted in plain text and those exchanged between the master
switch and the SSH management workstation are encrypted.
Figure 170 SSH Remote Management of a Slave Switch
Since enhanced stacking does not allow SSH encrypted management
sessions between a management station and a slave switch, you
configure SSH only on the master switch of a stack. Activating SSH on a
slave switch has no affect.
Master Switch
SSH Management
Workstation
Slave Switch
Plaintext Management Packets
(Proprietary Enhanced Stacking Protocol)
Encrypted Management Packets
(SSH Protocol)