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/
