Interface option for discovery

[vetash]

Its would be great if there wil be option like -i for discovery on machines that have more than one network interface. Do you have any plans on it?

[haakonnessjoen]

I must admit that I have stopped planning until we have solved the big problem that we cannot support newer RouterOS versions, since they have changed out the authentication process, and do not want to give us any help, and I have no time to try to reverse engineer it.

Even though they are a company built upon open source software. They are really hostile against open source.

[vetash]

What is latest version is supported?

[haakonnessjoen]

Now it supports all versions. What was the reason for specifying -i? it always tries every available interface.

[miquelmartos]

Being able to choose the interface can be very useful not only in discovery but also in connecting the client.
We have an "accel-ppp" server, this creates an "ipoe" interface for each connected user. There are thousands of users connected, "mactelnet" takes a long time to find the correct interface, tens of minutes in some cases.

I think that being able to choose the specific interface would reduce the time to a few seconds, so it would be very useful.

[haakonnessjoen]

Sure, but that is weird, it shouldn't even take a second to send a udp packet each on a thousand interfaces. Have you tried with -n? It could potentially work better.

Are you connecting to the mac address, or using the identity name?

It would be interesting to see some packet capture of the interface you are trying to connect via, and then do mactelnet, and wait until you get a connection. And share the pcap with me?