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Cisco 1841 and modem using serial port?

unaiqueguay
Level 1
Level 1

Hi,

First of all sorry about my english. I´m trying to connect two Cisco 1841 routers via serial port trough two telephone modems. Each router is connected to the modem with a original cisco RS232/V.24 DTE cable.

These modems are connected each other with a four wire leased line. The modems are working fine, if I try with a different brand routers (allied telesys) everything works perfect.

I can´t establish connection between the routers. Despite of serial interface 0/0/1 is up,line protocol is down...

PS: It´s mandatory use serial port instead aux port. I have this scenario in the lab, the modems are connected just with a four wire cable so I needn´t dial telephone numbers or something like that.

Thanks in advance,

Unai

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Running config Router 1 (router 2 equals with different ip addresses)

Current configuration : 798 bytes

!

version 12.4

service timestamps debug datetime msec

service timestamps log datetime msec

no service password-encryption

!

hostname Router

!

boot-start-marker

boot-end-marker

!

!

no aaa new-model

ip cef

!

!

!

!

no ppp hold-queue

multilink bundle-name authenticated

!

!

archive

log config

hidekeys

!

!

!

!

!

interface FastEthernet0/0

ip address 10.10.10.1 255.255.255.0

speed 100

full-duplex

!

interface FastEthernet0/1

no ip address

shutdown

duplex auto

speed auto

!

interface Serial0/0/0

no ip address

shutdown

no fair-queue

clock rate 125000

!

interface Serial0/0/1

ip address 11.10.10.1 255.255.255.0

!

ip forward-protocol nd

!

!

ip http server

!

!

!

control-plane

!

!

line con 0

line aux 0

line vty 0 4

login

!

scheduler allocate 20000 1000

end

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mavespig
Level 3
Level 3

Hi Unai,

the serial interface is configured for encapsulation HDLC, are you sure that the modem will understand it?

I would expect the modem to require PPP or SLIP, can you test it?

You wrote that with Allied Telesys the modems work fine, what's the config you are using there?

Cheers

Marco

Hi Marco,

I have tried with two encapsulation modes: ppp and HDLC with same results.

The allied telesys is working on ppp ( I use asyn0 interface (DCE)  to connect with the modem).

Hi Unai,

Configure the serial interface for PPP, then collect the output of show controller serial and show interface serial.

I'd also enable "deb ppp nego" and "deb ppp packets" to see if there is any communication between modem and serial card.

Regards

Marco