MAC-Telnet — MikroTik Layer-2 Terminal Protocol

MAC-Telnet lets you open an interactive RouterOS terminal (or run commands) addressing a device by its MAC address — you do not need to know or route to the target's IP. It works across a Layer-2 broadcast domain even when the target has no IP, a wrong IP, or an IP you cannot route to, which is why WISPs and provisioning tools rely on it. WinBox's "MAC Telnet" and the tools/mac-telnet CLI use this protocol family.

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