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
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
Never used those but on some gear from that era it had to.be repeated 3x
like the Hayes +++ attention sequence.
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......
Remember if you're using minicom it will escape ^A for it's own menu use.
Wolfe.net had a score of those with Multi-tech modems way back in the
day. I remember days spent hunting down ring-no-answers in a 400 POTS
line hunt group.
It was much easier to detect those by looking for strange port connectivity patterns in the logs.
re: annexes, it was a happy day when we upgraded from annex 3 to portmaster. No idea what the escape key was.
Nick
I have a couple of Micro Annex's in the recycle pile in my basement and,
after a bit of rummaging, found that I have the paper documentation as well.
In the User's Guide it says: "While in a session with a host, pressing an
attention key returns you to the CLI prompt." Somewhere else it indicates
that BREAK is the attention key however that may be configurable.
If anything further is needed contact me, probably off-list, and I can look
in the docs including the full CLI manual.
Jon