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From: "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@bigbrother.rust.net>
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Subject: Re: Problem with telnet from FreeBSD to cisco router
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970914150434.00740cf4@lda> from Peter Olsson at "Sep 14, 97 03:04:35 pm"
To: pol@leissner.se (Peter Olsson)
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 08:56:53 -0400 (EDT)
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It's a problem in the default shell settings.

"term len 24" will fix the problem.

Regards,
Michael

> With the latest cisco versions (from 11.2) there is a bug
> that makes telnet to the cisco ignore screenlength. Output
> from the cisco scrolls by without stopping every screen.
> 
> This only happens with FreeBSD-telnet. Has someone else
> had this problem and know the reason/solution? Or has any
> pointers to how I can debug the telnet-negotiations?
> 
> Thanks for your time!
> 
> Peter Olsson    pol@leissner.se
>