From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827 Description of problem: I would like to be able to bind telnet to a local interface on my multi-interface machines. Similar to the way ping -I works. I have a patch against netkit-telnet-0-17. I hope it will apply to redhat's telnet source without too much trouble. Please consider adding this feature, thanks! Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): telnet-0.17-25 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. telnet -I eth1 10.1.1.1 2. 3. Actual Results: -I not a supported option. Expected Results: [connected] Additional info:
Created attachment 95112 [details] Patch to add local-address binding against netkit-telnet 0.17 This patch adds requested feature to netkit-telnet 0.17, hopefully it will apply with little pain to the version RedHat ships.
later... postponed to Fedora Core 2
Any hope of getting this in, maybe FC3 or FC4?
Hmm, I have no good feeling about adding this to telnet. Can't you get that option upstream? I know, there has been no new version since years... but...
I originally sent the patch to the maintainer, but I don't think they are really maintaining it anymore. I believe the patch is fairly simple, and I'd be willing to help with any bug reports that you get if you apply the patch....
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Red Hat Linux 7.3 and Red Hat Linux 9 are no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc. f you are currently still running Red Hat Linux 7.3 or 9, you are strongly advised to upgrade to a current Fedora Core release or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable. Some information on which option may be right for you is available at http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/. Closing as CANTFIX.