Saturday, April 03, 2021

Telnet connection with Apple Silicon Macs

Telnet connection with Apple Silicon Macs sometimes would not connect to the server.

Symptom was just a blank screen as if it were not trying to connect.
When verbose login was selected, you could see an error message that said, "Bad CPU Type".

Solution:  Upgrade to MacWise 21.6  or later.


Telnet connection using VPN

Problem:  Cannot get a login using MacWise with Telnet and a VPN connection.

Error might be, "Failed: Operation timed out"

or it might be "Sorry, you must SET LINE or SET HOST first"


The simple fix can be to set the VPN service order to the top of the list in Network Preferences.

Select System Preferences... from the Apple Menu

Then select Network

Find your VPN in the list of networks in the left column and drag it to the top of the list.

That's it.

Now your VPN has first priority when making a connection to the internet and your telnet connection should work with MacWise.


Note that lots of things can cause a telnet connection to fail but this is one you might never think of.