Screenos + Telnet Oddness

[wij]

Probably a shout for Mr Bigredshark but I have a client who has a SSG 140 that I've been asked to remote into and have a look at.

Can telnet just fine, but using Putty on Windows after the login prompt none of the text gets printed to the screen, though the keystrokes are registered as I can enter commands.

Using terminal.app on my Mac I get text but backspace doesn't work.

Seems a bit strange as I use both methods to connect into various different Juniper and Cisco bits of kit and have never had any problems like this.

It's running Firmware Version: 5.4.0r1a.0 (Firewall+VPN) but I can't find anything about this in the release notes.

Going to be a bit of a PITA as they don't have a support contract for it anymore and I can't get a newer version of Screenos to stick on it :S

 

[wij]

Well I just tried SSH and also get the same odd behaviour, also connected into another 140 running newer firmware and didn't get any problems.

Think I'm going to get them to sort out a new support contract as it looks like its only about £100 for the year and I can at least bring the Screenos up to date.

 

[wij]

can't comment about the weird terminal behaviour with regards to screen blanking since it's been a while since i used code that old and i haven't even seen an ssg device running anything less than 6.something. with regards to backspace though, try the mac equivalent of ctrl-h on windows as a workaround - or there should be a keymap option to change it, there certainly is in putty.

Yeah that fixed backsapce not working properly on Mac Terminal... like you say a bit odd and I've also not really worked on anything pre screenos 6 either.

Still going to get them to sort out a new support contract for it anyway as its still a perfectly good bit of kit and would be good to get it up to date.