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Chapter 2: Telnet

This chapter explains how to set up Telnet access on the Vyatta system.

This chapter presents the following topics:

•Telnet Configuration

•Telnet Commands

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Telnet Configuration

Configuring Telnet is optional, but creating the Telnet service will allow you to access the Vyatta system remotely. Example 2-1 enables Telnet on the default port (port 23), as shown in Figure 2-1.

Figure 2 1 Enabling Telnet access

R1	Telnet: Enabled, Port 23

To enable the Telnet service on the Vyatta system, perform the following steps in configuration mode:

Example 2 1 Enabling Telnet access

Step	Command
Create the configuration node for	vyatta@R1# set service telnet
the Telnet service.
Commit the information.	vyatta@R1# commit
	OK
Show the configuration.	vyatta@R1# show service
	telnet {
	}

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