How to telnet to a name in my cisco home lab.

[TheodoreBe]

I have recently purchased 5 Cisco 2611 routers, I am not sure how to set it up so I can telnet to the router name, instead of having to type out the interface IP?

 

[lerdalt]

dns would probably be the easiest. Or you can setup the local host file on your workstation to resolve the names to the right addresses.

 

[burtsbees]

Telnet from what? Another Cisco router?

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tim@tim-laptop ~ $ sudo apt-get install windows
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package windows...Thank Goodness!

 

[TheodoreBe]

Yes, telnet between routers so I dont have to move the console cable. What I have done is setup a Loopback interface, and set ip host name ip address on each router, I can now telnet between my routers. Thank you for the advice.

 

[burtsbees]

Let's say that for example one router at 10.1.1.1 is called fire...from the telnet router...

router>10.1.1.1

Or

router>en
router#conf t
router(config)#ip host fire 10.1.1.1
router(config)#exit
router#wr

Then

router#fire

Do this for all hosts, and then from

router>

you can type whatever hostname you define

Boom, there it is.

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tim@tim-laptop ~ $ sudo apt-get install windows
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package windows...Thank Goodness!