Connecting to a remote device with Telnet

A Telnet session is not secure. If you need a secure connection, use SSH.

To connect to a remote server with Telnet, perform the following steps:

  1. Establish a Telnet session connection to the remote device.
    device# telnet 10.20.51.68 vrf mgmt-vrf
    The example establishes a Telnet session to a device with the IP address of 10.20.51.68.

    You can override the default port by using the port-number port option. However, the device must be listening on this port for the connection to succeed.

    If the device is active and the Telnet service is enabled on it, a display similar to the following appears.

    device# telnet 10.20.51.68 vrf mgmt-vrf
    Trying 10.20.51.68...
    Connected to 10.20.51.68.
    Escape character is '^]'.
    ...
    device login: 
  2. Once you have established the Telnet connection, you can log in normally.