Yes, and do an atdt5551212 to dial-out...pretty cool stuff (see below). I setup some 3640's a while back as out-of-band management for a client's different data center locations. It was a bit "over-engineered" (read: $$, see my note on WICs below) but highly-available - thus would provide connectivity in almost any foreseeable outage.
Really quick, there were three sites, each with redundant L2 backbone segments. Each 3640 had a dual-port Ethernet - one connecting to each backbone segment, the 8-port analog modem card and a 32-port async module. I configured a loopback interface and advertised it into EIGRP (denying everything else of course, so the term-server didn't become a transit path); and pointed DNS at the loopback interfaces. I had the electricians wire-up some "back-to-back" patch panels so I could take the octopus cables from the A/S module and plug them in one side and use regular patch cables from the other side to the managed device. (I've since seen a company that sells a patch panel with a "scsi" cable out the back to connect to the A/S port - a more elegant solution). I convinced the phone guys to give me a few analog lines to connect to each term svr and was in business. For added flair, I setup an autocommand menu system so when people connected (via Telnet or modem) they would be given a menu that simplified the reverse telnet process. Throw in a little TACACS for good measure. What I thought was really sweet (getting back to the original topic) - I took one of my extra "data" ports at my desk and connected my roll-over cable to it. I patched back through the structured cabling to the console port on the Term Svrs in the location I worked so I could have full-time connectivity OOB to all network gear in my location thus permanently avoiding the "laptop drag." In addition, I was able to dial out through the Analog Modem card to the Term Svrs in the other locations as well as any of the remote routers in the field (~200). This was really helpful for remote support from home. :) The thing I didn't like about it was that it didn't come in a smaller package. What I'd really like to see is a WIC adapter that was a 1 or 2-port analog modem or better yet, make the AUX port on the access-level routers an analog modem capable - it can't cost that much. I obviously didn't need eight analog ports for each router on this project but at the time (late 2000) that was what I had to work with. If WICs were an option, I would have been able to do this same thing with 2600's - huge cost difference vs. the 3640's! Anyway, have fun. Ben -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of NetEng Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 1:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: reverse-telnet info [7:32518] Is it possible to do reverse-telnet with an 8-AM card? Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=32526&t=32518 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
