Telnet, part of the TCP/IP protocol suite, is a virtual terminal protocol that allows you to make connections to remote devices, gather information, and run programs. After your routers and switches are configured, you can use the Telnet program to reconfigure and/or check up on your routers and switches without using a console cable. You run the Telnet program by typing telnet from any command prompt (DOS or Cisco). You need to have VTY passwords set on the routers for this to work. Remember, you can’t use CDP to gather information about routers and switches that aren’t directly connected to your device. But you can use the Telnet application to connect to your neighbor devices, and then run CDP on those remote devices to get information on them. You can issue the telnet command from any router prompt like this: RouterA#telnet 172.16.10.2 Trying 172.16.10.2 … Open Password required, but none set [Connection to 172.16.10.2 closed by foreign host] RouterA# As you can see, I didn’t set m
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