Telnet on N900
 

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

Any ideas?

Re: Telnet on N900
 

Nobody in the N900 need to use telnet?

Re: Telnet on N900
 

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.

Re: Telnet on N900
 

You want a telnet client or server?

You can just recompile and optify the regular ubuntu client/server. It will work.

Re: Telnet on N900
 

I need a telnet client. It´s strange one isn´t included.

Re: Telnet on N900
 

hi robb ... just enable extra-devel and goto app manager, search for telnet, u will find client and server. Install the client one.

Re: Telnet on N900
 

If I could I´d double thank you.

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

Re: Telnet on N900
 

Another alternative is NetCat (or nc - for short). Add the tools repository - which also includes a Ping and Tracepath client.

Re: Telnet on N900
 

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.

Re: Telnet on N900
 

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>

Re: Telnet on N900
 

thanks, netcat seems to be in the fremantle tools repository, info here:
http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/devtools/maemo5
now i can see which ports WIND is blocking. they should change their motto to "join the conversation ON PORT 80 ONLY" or "unlimited internet (www only!)"
jerks

Re: Telnet on N900
 

One of the first things I did on my phone was to install openvpn. Fortunately, the vpn server on my desktop, and the various clients, were already set up, so getting the phone to join wasn't hard.

My VPN server listens on 1194 (the default) but also accepts proxied connections via the Apache server running on port 80. So when I'm stuck on one of those 80-only nets, I can just route everything through the vpn (I have a script to do that) and have complete freedom.

Since I set this configuration up, I've encountered one network that proxied port 80 and thus interfered with proxying my VPN. Fortunately, that net allowed 1194 so I was able to work through that route.

Of course, this assumes that you're in a position to set up a server on a static IP address.

Re: Telnet on N900
 

Do you (or any one else) know if this optified? We have an FTP service hosted outside our office and they make us telnet to manage it. So, this would be nice to have.

Re: Telnet on N900
 

the busybox that comes with maemo on n900 is rather lacking in utils, I nabbed one from an arm linux based NAS I have, it runs fine and adds a load of stuff like telnet and colour ls. However the other answers in this thread are of more use

Re: Telnet on N900
 

No need for a static, I use a dynamic dns service (dyndns.org) and openvpn without issue.