LKBEN10773: Howto check ICA functionality with telnet
Symptom
You need to know if the ICA Protocol is functioning and is open in the firewall
Cause
Troubleshooting
Solution
To test the functionality of the ICA protocol you can open a telnet session on the port 1494. (the default ICA port)
telnet servername 1494
You should see the word ICA in the top left corner of the window:
ICA
after a few seconds it adds the word ICA again, so after a minute you should see something like
ICAICAICAICAICAICAICAICAICA
on your screen. This means that the server has ICA active and reacts on the protocol, you can be shure the firewall does not bother you.
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Author: Wim Peeters - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG
Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience, including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.