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

[Aaron Gould]

I've actually taken out a little 2600 just to act as a 1-port terminal server for this exact purpose 

(maybe you can even use an old 2500) 

Aaron

> On May 18, 2018, at 6:00 AM, Aaron Gould <aaron1 at gvtc.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure if you can use a console port for connecting to another router's console port , but you can use the auxiliary (aux) port to do that.  I've done it many times
> 
> Aaron
> 
>> On 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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