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#1
I want to use telnet on my N900.
Unfortunatly I can't find telnet (even after gaining root).

Any ideas?
 
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#2
Nobody in the N900 need to use telnet?
 
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#3
You use OpenSSH Server, I think it's in extras-devel(or testing). Then you would need to use a SSH client such as PuTTY.

It's not telnet though, so if you for some reason must use that then I don't know.
 
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#4
You want a telnet client or server?

You can just recompile and optify the regular ubuntu client/server. It will work.
 
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#5
I need a telnet client. Itīs strange one isnīt included.
 
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#6
hi robb ... just enable extra-devel and goto app manager, search for telnet, u will find client and server. Install the client one.
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so i guess the the lesson learned is: "if you want a thing done well, do it yourself"
 

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If I could Iīd double thank you.

For anyone using extra-devel: remember to disable. It saves ~11MB of your rootfs.

Last edited by Robb; 2010-03-20 at 16:13.
 
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Another alternative is NetCat (or nc - for short). Add the tools repository - which also includes a Ping and Tracepath client.
 
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#9
Just to clarify for the non-hackers out there: the point of having telnet isn't to be able to log in to other machines; nobody uses it for that any more.

The point of telnet is network debugging. There's nothing like "telnet foo 25" or "telnet foo 80" or even "telnet foo 22" for quickly finding out what's going on with your packets.

Netcat is an alternative, but an inferior one.
 
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#10
The only way that netcat is inferior to telnet for checking a port is open is that telnet used to be installed by default on many operating systems.

This is no longer the case. So if you need to install something, netcat may as well be your choice as it gives you far more options. socat is also in the repositories.

netcat -v <ip address> <port>

socat - tcp4:<ipaddress>:<port>
 

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