description

Syntax

description text

undo description

View

Loopback interface view, null interface view

Default level

2: System level

Parameters

text: Creates an interface description, a string of 1 to 80 characters. Valid characters and symbols include English letters (A to Z, a to z), digits (0 to 9), special English characters, spaces, and other Unicode characters and symbols.

Description

Use description to set a description for the interface.

Use undo description to restore the default.

By default, the description of a loopback or null interface is interface name Interface. For example: Loopback0 interface.

An interface description can be a mixture of English characters and other Unicode characters. The mixed description cannot exceed the specified length.

To use a type of Unicode characters or symbols in an interface description, you must install the corresponding Input Method Editor (IME) and log in to the device through supported remote login software.

Each non-English Unicode character or symbol takes the space of two regular characters. When the length of a description string reaches or exceeds the maximum line width on the terminal software, the software starts a new line. If a line is broken, it may break a Unicode character into two parts and create garbled characters.

Related commands: display interface.

Examples

# Set the description for interface loopback 0 to loopback0.

<Sysname> system-view
[Sysname] interface loopback 0
[Sysname-loopback0] description loopback0