[Tutor] Telnet to Router/Switch

[Reed O'Brien]

On Dec 24, 2007, at 1:19 PM, Shahjehan Hakim wrote:

> Hi everyone..
>
> I have to make Telnet session with Router/switch of Cisco. Anybody  
> has idea how it can be done? from what i researched, i got most of  
> the telnet session like client/servers. But what I have to do here  
> is just to create a Telnet session which writes the password when  
> its prompted and then write the commands and fetch the result which  
> is returned by the session.

I would start with the telnetlib module:

http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-telnetlib.html

It has a quick example too:

http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/telnet-example.html
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