[c-nsp] line con 0 as terminal server on Cat6500?

[joshd]

If the good cat6500 had an aux port, you could go from aux->con of the bad
switch....but I don't think cat6500s have an aux port.

At a glance this page looks right:
http://ciscofaq.blogspot.com/2005/05/how-to-i-reverse-telnet-out-my-aux.html


On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 1:55 AM, Patrick M. Hausen <hausen at punkt.de> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> last weekend one switch in our VSS pair failed. Redundancy/VSS
> did work and we kept our connectivity besides a couple of hosts
> that only have a single uplink and were connected to that particular
> chassis.
>
> When I came to the data centre I found the failed chassis in rommon.
> A simple "boot" command restored everything to working order.
>
> Now to spare me that drive in case that happens again - is it possible
> to use the console port of a working Catalyst 6500 to act as a terminal
> server for the other one? We have quite a lot of spare rollover cables ;-)
>
> I found these instructions but I think I'm missing something:
> https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/dial-access/
> asynchronous-connections/5466-comm-server.html
>
> ip host other 2000 1.2.3.4
>
> Core2#telnet 1.2.3.4 2000
> Trying 1.2.3.4, 2000 ...
> % Connection refused by remote host
>
> I used the real IP address of looppback0, of course.
>
>
> Side note/question: any idea what could cause a Cat6500 VS-S720-10G
> to fail, reset (I can understand *that*) and then not boot into IOS and
> stay
> in rommon?
>
> Standby BOOT variable = sup-bootdisk:s72033-adventerprisek9_wan-mz.122-33.
> SXJ10.bin,1;disk0:s72033-adventerprisek9_wan-mz.122-33.SXJ10.bin,1;
> Standby Configuration register is 0x2102
>
> Core2#dir slavesup-bootdisk:
> ...
> s72033-adventerprisek9_wan-mz.122-33.SXJ10.bin
>
>
> Thanks!
> Patrick
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