Re: FWTK to Firewall-1 telnet problem

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

Dans son message du 26/10/1999, Lance Spitzner écrivait:

> On Tue, 26 Oct 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.
>
> By default, FW-1 does not use proxys.  Your problem may not be the
> FWTK <-> FW-1 connection, but FWTK <-> end host system.  Find out if
> the FW-1 system is using a Telnet proxy.  If it is not, then you know
> it is not the culprit.  If it is, let me  know, and we will see what
> we can come up with :)

Thanks a lot.

In fact this behaviour shows up even when the user authentication phase
takes place, so before he has been able to connect anywhere inside the
remote network. So I guess it's really a fwtk/FW-1 issue.

Regards,

Bruno

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