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H3C S5500-EI Series Ethernet Switches
Chapter 7 Configuring Source IP Address for Telnet
Service Packets
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Chapter 7 Configuring Source IP Address for
Telnet Service Packets
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7.1 Overview
You can configure source IP address or source interface for Telnet client. This provides
a way to manage services and enhances security.
The source IP address specified for Telnet service packets is the IP address of an
Loopback interface or VLAN interface. After you specify the IP address of a virtual
Loopback interface or an unused VLAN interface as the source IP address of Telnet
service packets, the IP address is used as the source IP address no matter which
interface of the switch is used to transmit packets between the Telnet client and the
Telnet server. This conceals the IP address of the actual interface used. As a result,
external attacks are guarded and the security is improved. On the other hand, you can
configure the Telnet server to accept only Telnet service packets with specific source IP
addresses to make sure specific users can log in to the switch.
7.2 Configuring Source IP Address for Telnet Service
Packets
This feature can be configured in either user view or system view. The configuration
performed in user view takes effect for only the current session, while the configuration
performed in system view takes effect for all the following sessions.
I. Configuration in user view
Table 7-1
Configure a source IP address for service packets in user view
To do…
Use the command…
Remarks
Specify the source IP
address or source
interface for the switch for
it to log in to another
device as a Telnet client
telnet remote-system
[
port-number
] [
source
{
ip ip-address
|
interface
interface-type
interface-number
} ]
Optional
Not specified by default