Re: FWTK to Firewall-1 telnet problem

[dwelch () uswestmail net]

On Tue, 26 October 1999, Bruno Treguier wrote:

> This user wants to access the remote site using telnet, and so goes thru our
> 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?

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