Hello all,

I finally upgraded my home firewall to 3.7 and am having troubles
connecting to it through our telnet proxy at work.  The previous
OpenBSD version on this firewall was 3.4 and my roundabout connection
to it worked fine.  I can also use the telnet proxy to connect to
another OpenBSD 3.6 firewall.

I'm using Windows and putty at work and even though I have logging
turned on for some reason it's not logging anything.  In putty I have
the proxy set to telnet-proxy port 23 and on my home firewall I have
SSH running on port 23 with pf blocking all port 22 and 23 except for
the IP of our telnet proxy.  Same basic setup as the 3.6 firewall
mentioned above.

If I use telnet on the Windows command line I get the following:
telnet>connect 66.160.22.12 22
Trying  66.160.22.12 port 22...
Connected to www.2fortheroad.net.
SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_4.1

Or:
telnet>connect 66.160.22.12
Trying 66.160.22.12 port 23...
www.2fortheroad.net: connect: Connection refused

I should probably have waited until I got home to send this message so
I could check my pf rules and sshd config first.  There's a chance
that I forgot to add port 23 to sshd_config, would that be confirmed
by the "Connection refused"?

I think putty or our telnet proxy gets confused unless SSH is running
on port 23.  I don't think I've ever had success connecting to SSH on
port 22 using putty and our proxy.  Is anyone using putty this way? 
Any tips for putty so I can try to get this going before I get home? 
I use SSH to tunnel ports that aren't available to us here (our only
internet connectivity is through ftp, telnet, and http proxies).

Thanks,
Greg

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