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telnet

Purpose Used to make an outgoing Telnet connection, also known as a session.

Required permissions For products with two or more users, permissions must be set to

“set permissions telnet=execute” to use this command. See

"set permissions" for details on setting user permissions for commands.

Syntax telnet ipaddress [tcp port]

Options ipaddress

The IP address of the host to which you want make a Telnet

connection.

tcp port

The TCP port assigned the Telnet application on the remote system.

The default is 23, the port typically used for Telnet.

Examples Establish a Telnet session using an IP Address

In this example, the telnet command establishes a Telnet session using an IP

address. The default TCP port (23) is used.

#> telnet 192.192.150.28

Establish a Telnet session to a device server port from the LAN

In this example, a user on the LAN initiates a Telnet connection to port 4 on a

device server.

#> telnet 192.192.150.28 2004