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May 20, 2008
Okay...I can admit when I'm wrong...
SecureCRT is incredible... Last week, my PuttyCM software crashed again. In a moment of frustration, I pulled out my credit card and paid the $139.00 for SecureCRT 6.0 with 3 years of maintenance. It's a little like the flu shot...you feel stupid paying money for it and it really hurts, but you're glad you did it when it's all over.
How did I ever live without this anti-idle feature before?!?
Ah geez...side note - I just went to the Putty CM website and saw they now have Alpha version 0.7.0 out that fixes many of the bugs I previously complained about. I can't believe I've just wasted $139.00 on SecureCRT now.
...I'm such a schizophrenic flake...
Posted by JC at May 20, 2008 2:17 PM
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Real network engineers use *NIX (Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, et. al.), so they don't *need* Putty or SecureCRT.
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Posted by: Roland Dobbins at May 20, 2008 9:49 PM
I don't use PuttyCM, but the PuTTY settings allow you to avoid timeouts using the Connection/Keepalives setting; presumably there is some way to access this in the GUI. Works great for keeping a session open to the 'real' computer for those of use who have to use Outlook or Word, and/or share lab computers.
Of course, now you have three years of maintenance. That means when your application crashes, you can report it, and after as many as three years they'll delete it from their database... or maybe I'm too cynical.
Seriously, several of the folks at work swear by SecureCRT, so presumably it is a decent program. I find there's something to be said for not having to reinstall stuff every time a new beta comes out, but I still use the PuTTY development version for the serial port so maybe I'm just a PuTTY lunatic. =) Hope you enjoy!
Posted by: Tim C. at May 21, 2008 5:01 AM
A FreeBSD console with `screen' installed is just fine with me. Maybe you should have a try.
Posted by: hughr at May 21, 2008 5:44 PM
still loving some Teraterm. best free emulator by far with rad tabbed windows, macros, etc.
http://networkingvibes.blogspot.com/2007/05/power-of-tera-term.html
Posted by: markg at May 21, 2008 8:39 PM
I used Tera Term a lot but for some reasom it takes several seconds to get a prompt sometimes.
SecureCRT is alright but my favourite is PUTTY TRAY get it from here http://www.xs4all.nl/~whaa/putty/
Posted by: Ricardo Martins at June 3, 2008 4:36 AM
Just a picture of Putty Tray as I described in the above comment
Posted by: Ricardo Martins at June 3, 2008 4:56 AM
I am using SecureCRT for three years. I used several other terminal emulators & SSH/Telnet clients (Including Putty) before and within this period. Actually I am not a fun of any tools. All of them do the trick. Preference based on stability and usability.
The reason why I paid for the SecureCRT is scripting support. You can find lots of scripts ready to use with it(Something like changing all passwords in all devices). You can make your own network discovery by using CDP. Only you need basic VBS skills.
Posted by: Mustafa AKSU at July 21, 2008 1:54 AM