Setting up termnet - Ubuntu

Termnet is a simple telnet replacement. It does not implement for the complete telnet protocol, but does provide a few nifty features of it's own. Especially when used with the termnetd terminal server daemon. It is great for accessing a serial port based Linux console; which is typical done when developing an embedded Linux based product.

Installing termnet

On Ubunt, you can simply

sudo apt-get install termnet termnetd

Note: In newer versions of Ubuntu, Termnet is not added in the installed repositories, but it can be downloaded as a .deb package for the daemon and for the application.

You can try link1 OR link2 to download them.

Installation: (for ubuntu 64bit with AMD PC processor)

sudo dpkg -i /home/<user>/Downloads/termnet_3.3-9.1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i /home/<user>/Downloads/termnetd_3.3-9.1_amd64.deb

Installation: (for ubuntu 32bit with intel i386 PC processor)

sudo dpkg -i /home/<user>/Downloads/termnet_3.3-9.1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i /home/<user>/Downloads/termnetd_3.3-9.1_i386.deb

Configuring Termnet

Edit the /etc/termnetd.conf file for the communication port. An example line for a serial port is:

 3000:on:/dev/ttyUSB0:B115200   CLOCAL IGNBRK CS8 CREAD;

Restart the daemon with the following after you've saved the file:

sudo /etc/init.d/termnetd restart

Running termnet

Open a terminal and write:

termnet localhost <portNumber>