Telnet on Pfsense

extacy1

Hi,

How do you install Telnet into Pfsense, so I can telnet a switch connected to my Pfsense?

I found http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,7853.0.html on archive, but could not figure it how to make it work.is it a package, where is it ? )

Any help, appreciated.

Thanks

marcelloc

pfsense has telnet client, it's on /usr/bin/telnet

Nobbie

Maybe I'm missing something here.

But how about about just forwarding port 23 to the IP address of your switch?

jimp

@Nobbie:

Maybe I'm missing something here.

But how about about just forwarding port 23 to the IP address of your switch?

Because that would be an extremely bad idea. I'm not sure about you, but I wouldn't expose my switch's management interface to the world, especially with an unencrypted protocol.

k6usy

@jimp:

Because that would be an extremely bad idea. I'm not sure about you, but I wouldn't expose my switch's management interface to the world, especially with an unencrypted protocol.

+1

I don't even keep SSH open to the world; I always VPN first. To many bots out there trying to crack simple passwords I would rather not have the traffic going to my router.

XIII

@k6usy:

To many bots out there trying to crack simple passwords I would rather not have the traffic going to my router.

Thats why you use key based SSH authentication, cuts down on the exposure drastically.

k6usy

@XIII:

@k6usy:

To many bots out there trying to crack simple passwords I would rather not have the traffic going to my router.

Thats why you use key based SSH authentication, cuts down on the exposure drastically.

That works too.