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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 >> -- >> punkt.de GmbH Internet - Dienstleistungen - Beratung >> Kaiserallee 13a Tel.: 0721 9109-0 Fax: -100 >> 76133 Karlsruhe [email protected] http://punkt.de >> AG Mannheim 108285 Gf: Juergen Egeling >> >> _______________________________________________ >> cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] >> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp >> archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
