Re: FWTK to Firewall-1 telnet problem

[Bruno Treguier <Bruno.Treguier () shom fr>]

dwelch () uswestmail net wrote:

> On Tue, 26 October 1999, Bruno Treguier wrote:
>
> > This user wants to access the remote site using telnet, and so goes thru ou
>   r
> > firewall via tn-gw. The problem is that FW-1 and FWTK can't seem to agree
> > on which telnet options to use, and the connection ends up being in 
> > "linemode",
> > with no possibility to go back to character mode afterwards.
>
> Most Unix telnet clients permit you to change options after connecting. Ctrl-
>   ], type "mode character". Do you know what client your end user is using?

What I meant by "no possibility to go back to character mode" is exactly 
that:
an escape sequence followed by "mode character" doen't change anything... But
thanks anyway for your suggestion.

Regarding the client used, we made tests with 3 different Unix telnet clients
(Solaris 2.6, Solaris 2.7 and RedHat 5.2 Linux) and a Win95 telnet client, 
all
ending with the same problems, which makes me think it's _not_ client related
but is really the symptom of something going wrong in the telnet options
negociation phase between fwtk and FW-1.

Regards,

Bruno
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