Screen OS

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  • 1.  What is the reason why MGT port exity?

    Posted 08-17-2015 19:49

    Everyday I deal with Juniper Firewall(ISG, SSG).

     

    But I've never been handling MGT port.

    Occasionally I wondered MGT port's object.

     

    I think that MGT's task is for using the telnet protocol, right..??

     

    Regards,



  • 2.  RE: What is the reason why MGT port exity?
    Best Answer

    Posted 08-18-2015 03:55

    Are you talking about the dedicated management port that exists on some of the ScreenOS hardware?

     

    If so, these exist to provide a phyiscal port that will not accept transit traffic that you can use on a dedicated out of band management network to manage the firewall.  You would connect to this port using your management protocol of choice i.e. SSH, SSL and make the necessary configuration changes to the device.

     

    And managment via transit ports and zones would be denied and not used.