I post this one out of curiosity more than anything, as we all know 2950's are pretty much toss away items now days, I have a pile of them.
Anyway on to the interesting part of this, I booted a 2950 I had here via the Console port (the switch was connected to nothing, other than a serial console, and of course AC power. After booting, the end of the boot phase looks like this: Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software IOS (tm) C2950 Software (C2950-C3H2S-M), Version 12.0(5.3)WC(1), MAINTENANCE INTERIM SOFTWARE Copyright (c) 1986-2001 by cisco Systems, Inc. Compiled Mon 30-Apr-01 07:56 by devgoyal FreeBSD 4.10 (STABLE) Kernel 2.6.27 on an i686 login: FreeBSD?? Kernel 2.6.27?? Which sounds like Linux to me kernel wise, and a login prompt that I have no way at all of getting past. I just never expected to see a FreeBSD prompt from a Cisco switch, has anyone ever run into this, or know what the login is? I am guessing this is dropping to some kinda of internal Cisco level we never see as a user, but it sure peaked my curiosity.. So has anyone ever seen this before, or have a clue they can share? I didn't have the heart to toss it out, without at least wasting a few minutes trying to sort out why I am getting that console prompt. I have even rebooted it a few times, always with the same result.. --- Howard Leadmon _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
