I have telnet blocked for management access on my Cisco 871 SOHO router. From inside my network, I use Putty.exe to access the user interface. When I access it, I first get a prompt for my user name and then my password (I am using login local). From outside my network, if you use Putty.exe to access the user interface, you immediately get a password prompt (no prompt for a user ID). I can't seem to figure out why this is happening. Does anyone have any educated guesses? Fred