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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 00:58:33 +1100
Subject: Re: SSH/Telnet program to Router/switch
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On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 12:35 AM, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
> As far as I know, fabric only works with ssh.  If you are forced to use
> telnet to talk to legacy equipment, that's another problem.

If it's telnet, it's likely to be a pretty simple protocol. All you
really need is the socket module, build it all yourself. Networking's
easy enough to handle; it's the crypto on top of it (SSH, in your
case) that's not worth doing manually.

ChrisA