Hi, I sent a RFS for a new package: mactelnet late February, but I have got no fish on the hook yet :/
I would really like for a DD to look at my package, and be my sponsor, as I am eager to begin as an active package maintainer. This is hopefully the first of many to come. About the package: mactelnet is a telnet like terminal client that uses UDP packets addressed to the MAC address of the telnet server. This is to be able to telnet the server, even when it is not configured with an IP address, or if you don't remember it. The protocol is a proprietary protocol for RouterOS, which is also the reason for this package. There is a lot of RouterOS users around the world, and they have to use Windows to connect to their RouterOS device if they are going to telnet it via MAC. (for example for "first-time-setup") This package gives you both a mactelnet client, and a mactelnetd server, so you can have all your linux and routeros devices reachable via mac addresses. It also uses a simpler version of CDP called MNDP (Mikrotik Network Discovery Protocol) to announce mactelnet server availability. So you can list servers on the local network using the included mndp discovery client. To test the binaries in this package, you need two (virtual or not) computers with Linux, that you can try to telnet to/from. (Or if you happen to have a Microtik RouterOS device (RouterBoard device), you could connect to/from this) The mactelnetd daemon is of course disabled by default, especially since the nature of the password handshake of the protocol needs you to save your passwords in clear-text. For more information: ITP: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=615823 RFS: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2011/02/msg00489.html Source: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/mactelnet I've also made a wireshark dissector for mactelnet, so there is also more info on their wiki: http://wiki.wireshark.org/Protocols/mactelnet -- Regards Håkon Nessjøen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/BANLkTinoHuYZ0Mu-6z+Amm+=hebo6m6...@mail.gmail.com
