Comments on: Putty – Recommended Default Settings for a Network Engineer

By: thejapa

thejapa — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 13:54:48 +0000

Hey, the auto-log feature is very useful. I thought you would like to use that.

All my putty sessions are automatically logged to an encrypted directory on my work PC.

My auto-log feature creates a new log file for each session, based on year-month-day-hour-minute-hostname.

I don’t even worry about creating chunks of text for documenting. I simply work then I open the log to write emails and stuff.

By: Wouter Prins

Wouter Prins — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 13:48:52 +0000

Also install the Monaco font, its a great font for terminal sessions. (even on windows )

By: Andrew Short

Andrew Short — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:27:52 +0000

Serial settings: Turn off flow control. Cisco serial terminals don’t use it and that’s about 95% of the my use of the serial port.

I also change the color of the font to a bright yellow or green and increase the size of the font to make it more readable. Not just to me, but a lot of times I am asking someone to watch over my shoulder.

Now that I’ve said “yellow or green” I’m thinking of going amber for a while.

By: David Farrell

David Farrell — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:00:38 +0000

I’ve found changing the default paste behaviour helps, for those moments you accidentally catch the right mouse button with a paste buffer full of config!!

By: Greg Ferro

Greg Ferro — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:50:34 +0000

My view on SecureCRT – http://etherealmind.com/securecrt-too-expensive-putty-tera-term/.

Can’t they make cheaper. Jeesh, it hasn’t changed in five years. It should be cheaper by now.

By: Jeremy L. Gaddis

Jeremy L. Gaddis — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:47:07 +0000

Vista comes w/ the Microsoft telnet client, it just isn’t installed by default.

Besides, everyone knows that SecureCRT > * anyway. =)

By: MCL.Nicolas

MCL.Nicolas — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:40:31 +0000

Awesome !
Already have a few of your tips in my saved config

THanks greg !