> I am wondering what is the linux telnetd doing, or if there is a way
> to dump the telnet protocol negotiation phase to see if the linux
> telnetd is doing something different.

Something wrong with tcpdump -x?  Telnet protocol is actually quite
simple, simple enough you can read it in a hex datastream dump with a
little practice learning the commonest byte-after-IAC values.  (Or at
least I can, and I would expect anyone anywhere near christos's skill
level could.)

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