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MACTELNET(1) General Commands Manual MACTELNET(1)

NAME

mactelnet - A tool for telneting via MAC addresses

SYNOPSIS

mactelnet [options] <MAC-Address|hostname>

DESCRIPTION

This tool enables you to telnet other RouterOS or MAC-Telnetd enabled devices. You can connect to either a hostname or a MAC address. If specified, the hostname (identity) will be looked up via MNDP discovery.

OPTIONS

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax. A summary of options is included below.

This will discover RouterOS or MAC-Telnetd enabled devices. It will list the MAC-address software version, and uptime of every device or machine it discovers. To exit the discovery, use Control + C
Do not use broadcast packets. A tad less insecure but requires root privileges. This means that ethernet packets will have the specified mac-address as the packet destination, instead of using the ethernet broadcast address.
Amount of seconds to wait for a response on each interface. If you have several network interfaces, this is the timeout value per interface.
Specify username. Without this option, you will need to enter the username in a interactive prompt.
Specify password. Without this option, you will need to enter the password in a interactive prompt.
Specify the path of the autologin configuration file. The default path for this file is ~/.mactelnet. The format for this file is standard INI file layout.
Do not use the autologin configuration file. Interactively ask for username and password.
Quiet mode.
Do not send client public key during the authentication phase. It will force the old MD5 (pre 6.43) algorithm to be used.
Show summary of options.
Show version of program.

SEE ALSO

mndp(1), mactelnetd(1), macping(1).

AUTHOR

mactelnet was written by Håkon Nessjøen <haakon.nessjoen@gmail.com>.

This manual page was written by Håkon Nessjøen <haakon.nessjoen@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).

February 27, 2011