[c-nsp] Cisco disable ports 2001,4001,6001,9001

Nick Hilliard nick at foobar.org
Thu Dec 11 07:32:51 EST 2025


Marco Moock via cisco-nsp wrote on 11/12/2025 11:48:
> Certain Cisco models (in my case 800 series, e.g. C886vaw, 886w etc.)
> have telnet services on port 2001,4001,6001 and 9001.
> 
> What is the preferred way to disable them entirely (not firewalling
> them), but keep telnet and ssh?

This isn't telnet-to-the-device, it's remote access to physical ports. 
You can disable it easily using e.g. for serial console:

line con 0
  transport preferred none

You'll need check which access lines are defined on each device and then 
disable them using "transport preferred none".

Nick


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