MikroTik RouterOS Telnet Client

Document revision 26-Mar-2002
This document applies to the MikroTik RouterOS v2.4 and v2.5

Overview

MikroTik RouterOS has a build-in Telnet Client. It is used to communicate with other systems over a network.

The following topics are covered in this manual:

The Telnet client feature is included in the 'system' package. No installation is needed for this feature.

There is no significant resource usage.

[MikroTik] system> telnet ?
Run telnet session to remote host. 

  <host>  IP address of host
[MikroTik] system> telnet

A simple example of using Telnet:

[MikroTik] > /system telnet 10.0.0.100
Trying 10.0.0.100...
Connected to 10.0.0.100.
Escape character is '^]'.

MikroTik v2.5rc3
Login:

Telnet using Telnet command mode:

[Mikrotik] > /system telnet
telnet> open 10.0.0.100
Trying 10.0.0.100...
Connected to 10.0.0.100.
Escape character is '^]'.

MikroTik v2.5rc3
Login: