R3721-F3210-F3171-HP High-End Firewalls Network Management Command Reference-6PW101

Parameters

text: Description of the interface, a string of 1 to 80 characters, which supports spaces, characters and

symbols found in standard English (such as numbers and case-sensitive letters), special English, and

other characters or symbols that conform to the Unicode standard.

NOTE:

• An interface description can be a mixture of English characters and other Unicode characters. The

mixed description cannot exceed the specified length.

• To use a type of Unicode characters or symbols in an interface description, you must install the

corresponding Input Method Editor (IME) and log in to the firewall through supported remote login

software.

• Each non-English Unicode character or symbol (non-English characters) takes the space of two re

ular

characters. When the len

th of a description strin

reaches or exceeds the maximum line width on the

terminal software, the software starts a new line. This may break a Unicode character into two parts and

create garbled characters at the end of a line.

Description

Use description to set a description for the current interface.

Use undo description to restore the default.

By default, the description of a loopback or null interface is interface name Interface, for example,

Loopback1 interface.

Related commands: display interface.

Examples

# Set the description for interface loopback 1 to loopback1.

<Sysname> system-view

[Sysname] interface loopback 1

[Sysname- loopback1] description loopback1

display interface loopback

Syntax

display interface [ loopback ] [ brief [ down ] ] [ | { begin | exclude | include } regular-expression ]

display interface loopback interface-number [ brief ] [ | { begin | exclude | include } regular-expression ]

View

Any view

Default level

1: Monitor level

Parameters

interface-number: Loopback interface number, which can be the number of any existing loopback

interface. With this argument, this command displays information about a specific loopback interface.

brief: Displays brief interface information. If you do not specify this keyword, this command displays

detailed interface information.