I think it won't allow telnet if there's no exec password set. But IIRC
you would get some sort of message about that (but maybe not with your
version of code?)
On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 12:27, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
> Luckily I wasn't trying to do anything urgent; but I discovered that I
> can't get a telnet connect to the 675 router connecting my house to
> the internet. Data is flowing through the router, I can ping it, and
> Cisco Commander can get into it and show me all sorts of stats. I
> just can't get a telnet connect. I'm sure I didn't turn off telnet
> the last time I messed with it (I probably blocked it to inside IPs
> only, but my failing telnet connects are from an inside IP). I'm
> pretty sure I *did* turn off the web interface, and I can't get any
> web connect to the router either.
>
> I get an immediate rejection of some sort ("Connection to host lost"
> from windows telnet), not a timeout.
>
> I haven't tried to do this since I installed Windows 2000 on my new
> computer; but I get the failure from other computers, too. I don't
> get as far as being asked for a password (and I've got the right
> password, I gave it to Cisco Commander to get that connection
> working).
>
> Anybody have any clever ideas?
>
> (Yes, I know where the serial cable is if it comes to that.)
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