[137440] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Old Annex question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Adams)
Sat Feb 12 23:17:54 2011
In-Reply-To: <8FCED5CE-7FB8-459C-AE55-BBF2B57CDD7F@mac.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 20:17:10 -0800
From: John Adams <jna@retina.net>
To: Brian Feeny <bfeeny@mac.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I remember maintaining a fleet of these back in the day. I believe
it's just the standard escape character Ctrl-] ?
Maybe this document helps?
http://www.marine.csiro.au/~dpg/sysManDocs/annex_man.pdf
-j
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Brian Feeny <bfeeny@mac.com> wrote:
>
> Sad but true, I still have a few of these in operation as terminal server=
s. =A0In reading the documentation I could find it wasn't clear to me how t=
o solve my issue. =A0I use these to manage Cisco routers.
>
> How can I connect to a server, and then drop back to the CLI, so I can th=
en connect to another server, and keep switching back and forth? =A0I thoug=
ht I could just set the attn_string to say "^A" and then I could just hit t=
hat and it would work, but it doesn't seem to. =A0I basically want to emula=
te the same functionality you can get when you do ^^x on a Cisco terminal s=
erver (2509/2511/etc).
>
> here is how its configured right now:
>
> %rotary
> host1: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A01@172.16.1.10
> host2: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A02@172.16.1.10
> host3: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A03@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 ho=
st1, but I want to drop back to the CLI, any ideas how to escape to CLI onc=
e connected?
>
> I figured that since many of you are from my same era and these were popu=
lar with ISP's of the day, someone here may know......
>
> Brian
>
>
>
