[150924] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Digi TS8 serial console server funkiness
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Bonser)
Wed Mar 7 21:54:45 2012
From: George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com>
To: "ml@kenweb.org" <ml@kenweb.org>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 02:53:48 +0000
In-Reply-To: <4F580BF5.20303@kenweb.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ML [mailto:ml@kenweb.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 5:32 PM
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Digi TS8 serial console server funkiness
>
> Problem is when attached to a Cisco switch I had laying around I get
> seemily random garble output when accessing the console of a remote
> Cisco device. (e.g. "show run" will get a few garbled lines halfway
> through, Holding down Enter will produce some garbled text every few
> lines).
>=20
Can you configure the port (on the switch and the console server) for flow =
control? You might be experiencing an overflow issue if the CPU of the ter=
minal server gets busy or a buffer gets full. Maybe RTS/CTS (if the cable =
has the pins) or even XON/XOFF (if it doesn't).
