[c-nsp] USB to serial converter

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
> [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net]On Behalf Of Tim Franklin
> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 3:11 AM
> To: Daniel Hooper
> Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] USB to serial converter
>
>
> On Mon, February 4, 2008 7:59 am, Daniel Hooper wrote:
>
> > Maybe just a local Ethernet port which has a hard coded IP address on it
> > that cannot be modified? Or an lcd display on your router/switch that
> > allows configuration of an ip address to manage the device?
>
> Which I can connect to via an inexpensive analogue modem from thousands of
> miles away, right?
>
> DSL was looking like it might be the solution to this sort of OOB problem,
> but it's still more expensive than a POTS line, and increasingly
> dirt-cheap providers are stopping you from making inbound connections,

No, they aren't.  What they are doing is blocking well-known
ports.  But anything above port 1024 has to be open.

config t

line vty 0 <end>
rotary <n>

Now you can telnet to port 3000+<n>


Ted