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# telnet

#### Syntax

telnet ipAddress | hostname [ vrf vrfName ] [ ipPortNumber | ipPortType ]
[ source-interface interfaceType interfaceSpecifier | noecho | line | debug |
verbose ]*

#### Release Information

Command introduced before JunosE Release 7.1.0.

#### Description

Enables connections to remote routers via the embedded Telnet client. There is no no version.

#### Options

- ipAddress—IP address of the remote router
- hostname—Name of the remote router
- vrfName—Name of the VRF to which the command applies; string of 1–32 alphanumeric characters
- ipPortNumber—Number of the port for the connection to the remote router, in the range 0–65535; default value is port number 23, the Telnet port. For more information about port numbers and associated processes, see www.iana.org.
- ipPortType—Name of a well-known port, as follows:
  - bgp—Border Gateway Protocol (port 179)
  - chargen—Character generator (port 19)
  - cmd—Remote commands (port 514)
  - daytime—Daytime (port 13)
  - discard—Discard (port 9)
  - domain—Domain Name Service (port 53)
  - echo—Echo (port 7)
  - exec —Exec (port 512)
  - finger—Finger (port 79)
  - ftp—File Transfer Protocol (port 21)
  - ftp-data—FTP data connections (port 20)
  - gopher—Gopher (port 70)
  - hostname—NIC hostname server (port 101)
  - ident—Ident Protocol (port 113)
  - irc—Internet Relay Chat (port 194)
  - klogin—Kerberos login (port 543)
  - kshell—Kerberos shell (port 544)
  - login—Login (port 513)
  - lpd—Printer service (port 515)
  - nntp—Network News Transport Protocol (port 119)
  - pim-auto-rp—Protocol Independent Multicast Auto RP (port 496)
  - pop2—Post Office Protocol version 2 (port 109)
  - pop3—Post Office Protocol version 2 (port 110)
  - smtp—Simple Mail Transport Protocol (port 25)
  - sunrpc—Sun Remote Procedure Call (port 111)
  - syslog—Syslog (port 514)
  - tacacs—Terminal Access Concentrator Access Control System (port 49)
  - talk—Talk (port 517)
  - telnet—Telnet (port 23)
  - time—Time (port 37)
  - uucp—Unix-to-Unix Copy Program (port 540)
  - whois—Nickname (port 43)
  - www —World Wide Web (port 80)
- source-interface—Forces Telnet to use the IP address of the specified interface as the source address for the Telnet connection
  - interfaceType—Type of interface to use to obtain the source address for the Telnet connection; see Interface Types and Specifiers
  - interfaceSpecifier—Number of interface to use to obtain the source address for the Telnet connection; format varies according to interface type; see Interface Types and Specifiers
- noecho—Disables local echo of user input
- line—Enables line mode
- debug—Enables debugging
- verbose—Enables verbose mode
- *—Indicates that one or more parameters can be repeated multiple times in a list in the command line

#### Mode

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#### Published: 2010-10-19

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