The Connection area allows customization of Low-level TCP connections, Internet protocol version, Login and Terminal details, Environment variables, Proxy type and other protocol-specific adjustments. You may also set keyboard actions, alarms and advanced terminal features, while tweaking the appearance, behavior, translation or colors of the window. The Terminal section refers to various general settings as well as line discipline and remote-controlled printing. Comprehensive utility that packs a plethora of options You can easily opt for the connection type (Raw, Telnet, Rlogin, SSH and Serial) and set logging options for the currently selected session.

PuTTY starts up revealing its comprehensive configuration panel to aid you customize and manage sessions and connections alongside the terminal and the window that wraps it in. One thing you must make sure of is that you can enjoy PuTTY within the legal boundaries of your country as it may interfere with both domestic and international cryptography laws from countries such as China, Singapore, Vietnam, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Tunisia or Belarus. This makes it possible for you to run it from your removable flash drive or external hard drive. PuTTY Portable resembles the same great features while keeping its settings in the same place as the application, thus assuring you that none of them are written in the registry or the disk of the computer you are using it on. Take this lightweight utility everywhere with you on any flash drive It also features an xterm terminal emulator in order to provide an effective environment for advanced users.

PuTTY is one of the big guys in the SSH and Telnet clients bunch with added abilities to connect through rlogin as well as raw TCP protocols to other computers.

For mac instal PuTTY SSH 0.79