If you've never used the Perl Sockets module for basic connection testing, you might be surprised at how easily you can craft a very useful script. I find my version of a Perl "listen" script to be as useful as a cable tester!
Nice script, but i find myself using netcat for this kind of thing:
remote machine: 'nc -lp 9999'
local machine: 'telent remote 9999'
you should see a connection establish and then you will be able to type into the session and whatever you type will appear on the remote netcat session. you could also pipe a file into nc and it will be echoed in your telnet session:
'nc -lp 999 < /etc/motd'
This works on any machine with netcat installed (which I think should be default)
I hope this will be useful to you at some point sandra.
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Nice script, but i find myself using netcat for this kind of thing:remote machine: 'nc -lp 9999'
local machine: 'telent remote 9999'
you should see a connection establish and then you will be able to type into the session and whatever you type will appear on the remote netcat session. you could also pipe a file into nc and it will be echoed in your telnet session:
'nc -lp 999 < /etc/motd'
This works on any machine with netcat installed (which I think should be default)
I hope this will be useful to you at some point sandra.