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MAC-Telnet Support
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As an idea, it will be very interesting to see in VyOS MAC-Telnet support
Console tools for connecting to, and serving, devices using MikroTik RouterOS MAC-Telnet protocol.
Git repo https://github.com/haakonnessjoen/MAC-Telnet
Also, this protocol allows us to find a device with running mactelnetd

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Version
-
Is it a breaking change?
Unspecified (possibly destroys the router)
Issue type
Feature (new functionality)

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We discussed this among maintainers and our conclusion is that it's not really a good idea. The protocol is fundamentally insecure, the implementation doesn't seem actively maintained, and most devices that VyOS is expected to run on have serial or KVM consoles, or even OOB interfaces like IPMI (while many Mikrotik boxes don't have anything, so mactelnet is the only way to restore access after a configuration mistake, short of a factory reset).

Some L2-based management protocol would be interesting but Mikrotik's mactelnet and that particular implementation aren't really what we want.