Suggestion: MACTelnet support

[lars18th]

Hi,

The current Live support is very useful!
However, no every time you can boot with an IP network. So a Layer 2 network support (Ethernet) is interesting.

Fortunately some open source project has client/server support of the MAC-Telnet tool.
See the project here: https://github.com/haakonnessjoen/MAC-Telnet
It has systemd scripts and can run in any Debian based Linux.

So, my suggestion is to support grml mactelnet=password cheat code like for SSH server.
To achieve this you only need to add the package and enable the service mactelnetd. Futhermore I recommend to run the tool mndp as well for autodiscovering.

Using this technique you can boot a headless server and connect to it from another machine connected to the same Ethernet network even without any IP communication.

You agree?

Note: Using this MAC-Telnet and AoE it's possible to recover data from any headless server with only direct Ethernet wires. 😉

[mika]

Interesting idea, thanks for the suggestion!