On Fri, 17 Aug 2001 andy at theasis.com wrote:

> Unfortunately, you need telnet to talk to most little routers (like ISDN
> routers) over the network. Whatashame.

Paranoid:
Step 1.  Connect Linux box to console port on switches/routers/etc
Step 2.  SSH into linux box.  Use minicom.

Not so paranoid:
Just set up a box internally that you can SSH to.  telnet from there into
your switches/routers.  You're far safer doing this by keeping the telnet
stream off the interent and in a safer environment.

-Brian