CLI Reference Guide Basic Configuration Management
ip telnet source-interface
To specify the IP address of one interface as the source address for the Telnet connection, use the
ip telnet source-interface command in the global configuration mode:
ip telnet source-interface interface-name
Name of the specified interface
Global configuration mode.
This command is used to specify the IP address of one interface as the source address for the
global Telnet connetction. When using the telnet command to log in a Telnet server, if no source
interface or source address is specified for this connnetcion, the global setting is used.Use the
no ip telnet source-interface command to restore it to the default setting.
The example below specifies the IP address of the interface Loopback1 as the source address
for the global Telnet connection.
Ruijie(Config)# ip telnet source-interface Loopback 1
lock
To set a temporary password at the terminal, execute the EXEC mode command lock.