Use Telnet in Windows – Guidelines
Today in this article, we shall cover the basics of telnet including how to use Telnet in Windows.
Today in this article, we will cover below aspects,
What is Telnet?
Telnet is an application protocol for bidirectional interactive text-oriented communication over the Internet or a local area network using a virtual terminal connection.
Main feature of Telnet
- In an 8-bit byte oriented data connection using the Transmission Control Protocol, user data is interspersed in-band with Telnet control information (TCP).
- Telnet gave users access to a remote host’s command-line interface.
- Telnet’s has some security problems when utilizing it over an open network like the Internet when it compared with SSH.
- Telnet was created in 1969 and standardized as Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Internet Standard STD 8, one of the early Internet standards and extended in RFC 855
Telnet is already available in Windows operating system and can be easily enabled by following the below-listed steps.
Steps to enable Telnet in Windows
- Open Control Panel ->Go to Programs and Features (WIN+R and then enter control)
Alternatively, you can run appwiz.cpl in the windows search
2. Click on “Turn Windows features on or off“
Select the Telnet Client feature.
Once enabled click on Ok and you shall see below dialog box for successful configuration.
next, open the command prompt and just type telnet.
This will open a “Command prompt for Telnet client”.
You are all set to run the Telnet commands,
Telnet commands on windows
- c – close -> close current connection
- d – display -> display operating parameters
- o – open hostname [port] connect to hostname (default port 23).
- q – quit exit telnet
- set – set set options (type ‘set ?’ for a list)
- sen – send send strings to server
- st – status print status information
- u – unset unset options (type ‘unset ?’ for a list)
- ?/h – help print help information
For more details on the above commands please refer to this link.
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