10
C
HAPTER
3
SSH: L
OGGING
INTO
THE
M
ICRO
RAPTOR
3. SSH: Logging into the MicroRAPTOR
This section describes how an
SSH
session can be established between a laptop and the MicroRAPTOR.
C
ONTEXT
:
MicroRAPTOR can be configured through an
SSH
Interface from a terminal emulator such as Putty. The command line interface allows the user to control
various parameters at the system and protocol level.
Before configuring the MicroRAPTOR from a PC, confirm accessibility of MicroRAPTOR’s firmware by
pinging it from the PC.
1.
On a laptop, install a terminal emulator. A popular option is Putty.
a.
A link to download Putty is:
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html
2.
An Ethernet cable must connect the RAPTOR’s switch ports and a computer. The computer inter
-
face should be assigned an
IP
address on the 192.168.10.0/24 network.
F
OR
EXAMPLE
:
An address of 192.168.10.100 with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 is one such suit
-
able combination of an
IP
address and submask to be assigned for the computer to be used in the
connection.
