Telnet Client

Document revision 12-Aug-2002
This document applies to the MikroTik RouterOS v2.6

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.

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

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

A simple example of using Telnet:

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

MikroTik v2.5.12
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 v2.5.12
Login: