Configures the Telnet server on the device.
The Telnet service is enabled by default.
Global configuration mode
Use the no form of the command to re-enable the Telnet service on the device.
Shutting down the Telnet service forcibly disconnects all Telnet sessions running on a device.
Telnet services are associated and started on mgmt-vrf and default-vrf.
Telnet server can be enabled on a maximum number of 32 VRFs.
The following example shuts down the Telnet server on the default VRF.
device# configure terminal device(config)# telnet server use-vrf default-vrf shutdown