of course it depends.. yep over console you can watch the booting process and break over..yes..
It is possible to upgrade IOS over aux... and also locate hardware failure... but once again it depends...
reconfiguring from scratch isn't really easy over aux :-.
a.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan O'Connell [mailto:ryan@complicity.co.uk]
> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 10:13 PM
> To: KF
> Cc: 'Bulger, Tim'; cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [nsp] Maximum length for RS-232 for serial console
> connections?
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 10:01:25PM +0100, KF wrote:
> > If you have AUX free or available, then use for long
> distance 2 modems configured as LL without compression
> protocol or if you some
> > oldiee power loops, you can have up to 19200 over some km...
>
> Aux isn't good for OOB management, you can't troubleshoot
> broken hardware or
> use "Remote Hands"[1] to swap out duff parts and reconfigure
> from scratch or
> upgrade IOS images or break into a box and so on.
>
> [1] Aka "Rack Monkeys" if you work for a certain large telco...
>
> --
> Ryan O'Connell - CCIE #8174
> <ryan@complicity.co.uk> - http://www.complicity.co.uk
>
>
> I'm not losing my mind, no I'm not changing my lines,
> I'm just learning new things with the passage of time
>
>
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