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

[Erik Sundberg]

I think you can only do the reverse console from an aux port

We put console servers, OOB management network, and managed power strip at every pop for this reason....... The small investment has saved us a lot of time and money.

Perle IOLAN SCS48
Avocent
Opengear
Digi
Old Cisco Router

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 Airconsole Mini could work for this?

https://www.get-console.com/shop/en/airconsole-mini-20/
112-airconsole-20-mini.html

We use the 8 port variant and they work well enough so far.


On 18 May 2018 at 12:03, Aaron Gould <aaron1 at gvtc.com> wrote:

> 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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