[wellylug] Telnet
David Antliff
dave.antliff at paradise.net.nz
Wed Nov 24 16:08:40 NZDT 2004
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Andrew Stephen wrote:
> I'm with Chris on this one. When I don't have netcat handy telnet is
> the universal web browser, TCP protocol identifier, MUA and firewall
> rule tester. I honestly don't remember the last time I used it for
> telnet though.
We have a telnet interface on our radio products for ease of development.
There's no customer requirement for them to run a telnet daemon. It's
quick and convenient and in the laboratory, security is a non-issue.
Simple low-level tools like dd, telnet, netcat, cat, etc are the building
blocks of a flexible and powerful system.
Speaking of netcat, who uses 'socat'? Now that's a cool little tool, eh? ;)
--
David.
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