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To do…
Use the command… Remarks
Set the idle-timeout
timer
idle-timeout
minutes
[
seconds
]
Optional
The default idle-timeout is 10 minutes. The
system automatically terminates the user’s
connection if there is no information interaction
between the device and the user within the
idle-timeout time.
Setting idle-timeout to 0 disables the timer.
CAUTION:
The common settings configured for console login take effect immediately. If you configure the common
settings after you log in through the console port, the current connection may be interrupted, so you must
use another login method. After you configure common settings for console login, you need to modify the
settings on the terminal to make them consistent with those on the device.
Logging in through Telnet
The device supports Telnet. You can telnet to the device to remotely manage and maintain it, as shown
Figure 12
Telnet login
The following table shows the configuration requirements of Telnet login.
Object Requirements
Configure the IP address of the VLAN interface, and make sure the Telnet
server and client can reach each other.
Telnet server
Configure the authentication mode and other settings
Run the Telnet client program.
Telnet client
Obtain the IP address of the VLAN interface on the server
By default, the device is enabled with the Telnet server function.
•
On a device that serves as the Telnet client, you can log in to a Telnet server to perform operations
on the server.
•
On a device that serves as the Telnet server, you can configure the authentication mode and user
privilege level for Telnet users. By default, password authentication is adopted for Telnet login, but
no login password is configured. Before you can telnet to the device, you need to log in to the
device through the console port, enable the Telnet server function, and configure the authentication
mode, user privilege level, and common settings.
Telnet login authentication modes
The following authentication modes are available for Telnet login:
none
,
password
, and
scheme
.
