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Old Annex question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Feeny)
Sat Feb 12 23:00:54 2011
From: Brian Feeny <bfeeny@mac.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 23:00:46 -0500
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Sad but true, I still have a few of these in operation as terminal servers. In reading the documentation I could find it wasn't clear to me how to solve my issue. I use these to manage Cisco routers.
How can I connect to a server, and then drop back to the CLI, so I can then connect to another server, and keep switching back and forth? I thought I could just set the attn_string to say "^A" and then I could just hit that and it would work, but it doesn't seem to. I basically want to emulate the same functionality you can get when you do ^^x on a Cisco terminal server (2509/2511/etc).
here is how its configured right now:
%rotary
host1: 1@172.16.1.10
host2: 2@172.16.1.10
host3: 3@172.16.1.10
%gateway
annex 172.16.1.10
net default gateway 172.16.1.1 metric 1 hardwired
end
So I connect to my annex by telnetting to 172.16.1.10, then I type say host1, but I want to drop back to the CLI, any ideas how to escape to CLI once connected?
I figured that since many of you are from my same era and these were popular with ISP's of the day, someone here may know......
Brian
