Bug 11976

Summary:	Telnet client special commands option
Product:	Busybox	Reporter:	henry.vitoux
Component:	Networking	Assignee:	unassigned
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	busybox-cvs
Priority:	P5
Version:	1.29.x
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Host:		Target:
Build:
Attachments:	telnet_special_characters_patch

Description henry.vitoux 2019-06-22 19:46:59 UTC

Hello guys,

First of all thank you for this great project, busybox rocks!
Lately I've been experimenting with Alpine Linux and busybox flawlessly fulfilled
all of my needs.

I'm having a small "comfort issue" with telnet client though.
I'm trying to connect to a Korenix 3005 switch through telnet for management purposes, and all is well except for the backspace character - seems like my 
switch doesn't handle it too well and instead of erasing the last character
all it does is print some garbage to the screen.

I've had the same issue before while using putty, but saw a solution that
suggests to enable "Telnet special commands" in the options menu, and it worked.

Is there a similar option/flag in busybox?
I've read a bit about these commands and it has something to do with replacing
the backspace character with some other special character...

Sorry if this isn't the appropriate place to post this question.

Thank you,
Henry

Comment 1 Martin Lewis 2019-07-08 14:41:57 UTC

Created attachment 8146 [details]
telnet_special_characters_patch

Hi,

There's no such option, this patch enables it by going into
telnet options (CTRL + ']') and pressing 'k'.

Comment 2 henry.vitoux 2019-08-04 07:34:18 UTC

(In reply to Martin Lewis from comment #1)

Cool, thanks a lot!
Will it be applied soon?