Reverse telnet to consoles hangs

[mrrussell]

Hi I have a problem with Reverse Telnet hanging on a 2600.

console#telnet 172.25.18.105 2033

Trying 172.25.18.105, 2033 ... Open

<just hangs !!!> even though cable 1-5 are plugged into cisco device console ports.

Config of cisco 2600 - Version 12.2(8)T5.....

interface FastEthernet0/0

ip address 172.25.18.105 255.255.255.192

no ip mroute-cache

speed 100

full-duplex

!

ip classless

ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 172.25.18.65

!

line 33 47

exec-timeout 0 0

no exec

transport input telnet

escape-character BREAK

Any ideas.

Thanks

Mick

[Richard Burts]

Mick

I do not see any serious issues with the config (although when you configure no exec there is no reason to have exec-timeout 0 0 configured). When I configure a router as a terminal server I usually configure transport output none, but I do not think this difference would cause your symptoms.

Can you verify the connections? Your example uses the first line (line 33) what is it connected to? If you connect a PC to the console port of that device do you get connected? What kind of cable are you using to connect the 2600 to the device?

HTH

Rick

[mrrussell]

Rick, thanks for your suggestions. I've just realised that it was a simple solution, a case of looking too deeply. I have a 16 port card and a single 8 way Async cable which I mistakingly had connected to the upper (line 41-48) connector bank!

Thanks

Mick