@zoomkat: afaik telnet is stateful, and nowhere in the documents does it stay that the Ethernet lib is "stateless"; it is definitely possible.
@PaulS: As it's being accessed through telnet via console, you can't really ask a user to input details for every request. Also, when engineering stuff, you have to think in terms of what you want to do, and not be limited by what you think the hardware can do.