Bob Tanner [tanner at real-time.com] wrote: > Quoting Clay Fandre (clay at fandre.com): > > Yes, please listen to Mike. (for once) Let's rid the world of telnet and > > r-services. There really isn't a need for them anymore. If you don't believe > > me, just start running dsniff for a while. You'll see what I mean. > > > > Still need a telnet client for Cisco gear that doesn't support ssh, all(?) > Ascend/Lucent gear, a very basic testing tool (telnet mailserver 25 anyone?). > > Right? nc mailserver 25 Yes, if you looked at my instructions in the earlier message, I never said anything about removing the telnet client packages, only the server/daemon packages. Use ssh when you can. On a UNIX box, that's just about 100% of the time. Hopefully the network eq will catch on sooner rather than later.