[121857] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Strange Cisco 6503 problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Barak)
Thu Jan 28 18:25:05 2010
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:24:53 -0800 (PST)
From: David Barak <thegameiam@yahoo.com>
To: Peter Hicks <peter.hicks@poggs.co.uk>, Dean Belev <dbelev@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4B621AA2.1060002@poggs.co.uk>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
----- Original Message ----=0AFrom: Peter Hicks <peter.hicks@poggs.co.uk>=
=0ATo: Dean Belev <dbelev@gmail.com>=0A=0A>> I'm curious if some of you fac=
ed such a problem - reboot of the router caused by the console connection.=
=0A=0A>I once managed to send a BREAK signal to a 3640 by plugging in a con=
sole cable.=A0 At the time, it was a pretty key router in the=A0=0A> networ=
k and sat at the rommon> prompt :)=0A=0A>I had that down to static somewher=
e, as it's the only explanation I could find.=0A=0A=0ACertain serial speed =
mismatches get interpreted as BREAK - I routinely use=A0"space bar at 1200"=
=A0to password crack routers where they are expecting 9600.=0A=A0=0ADavid B=
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