4.5.2. telnet

telnet supports bidirectional interactive text-oriented communication.

You should be able to connect to a telnet server.

[testbench@fsl-tb09 ~]$ telnet 10.1.1.5
Trying 10.1.1.5...
Connected to 10.1.1.5.
Escape character is '^]'.
Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug)
Kernel 3.13.8-200.fc20.x86_64 on an x86_64 (1)
test-bench login: