From: Jay Hennigan (jay@xxxxxxxx)
Date: Mon Apr 02 2001 - 21:21:32 GMT-3
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Andrew White wrote:
> An interesting fault, I can connect to the console port fine with a laptop
> on the 2924xl switch, but cannot connect to it via reverse telnet. I am
> using a 16 port Async module on a 2621. When I take one port and plug it
> into another router the LED lights up (on the Async card), when I plug it
> into the switch, the LED goes, off. Am I forgetting something stupid here?
Are you using a rollover cable (flat blue one)?
Console ports don't have handshaking lines, so the other end may not
be getting a DTR from the console port of the switch and thus not show
it as up if you're trying to originate a reverse telnet from the switch
out to something else.
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