Hello, thank you for response, more in you text: Instead of ssh, you could use telnet to connect to the Cisco router (which incidentally runs on port 23, but is likely to be disabled on I want to use my script against FreeBSD router and against RouterOS so I need ssh. I can use system function to call ssh command, but I can try it over php tools. Or if you do not like the idea of sending clear-text passwords to the router, you might want to learn about proc_open() (or popen()) and use the native ssh utility that most likely is present on the server, taking great care to READ THE MANUAL for the ssh command, because you most likely do _not_ want it to spit out ANSI-escapes to you script. It will be probably better way than system function. If I fail with using sockets I use this. Thank you very much. Radek
