Good bye old faithful Access Router 2511

itdaddyitdaddy Member Posts: 2,089 ■■■■□□□□□□
Hello tabbed telnet gui program. love it.
I use Absolute Telnet 5.06...I set up managed ports on each device total 20 some and wow I love it. I set up privilege level 15 on all of them and all I have to do is click open all of them up via Absolute Telnet icons bam
all tabs in order and log into each and bam each stays open and I can
move to each device with just a a click. Man I love this. I am sure most of you guys have already done this but I was watching a CBT and this network engineer was tabbing thru to each device and I thought man
I am starting to hate my 2511 and fell in love with tabbed telnet sessions.
wow. I have certain labs with certain devices I just look at my topology maps I made and chose the icons for my telnet sessions and bam they are in in one guy omg! In this case I love change wowowowowoo!
I can scream to each device and wow....not sure how I did without such a cool interface...icon_cheers.gif

I have evolved!!!!!!!!!!
Back to the burner!icon_study.gificon_study.gificon_study.gif
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  • Forsaken_GAForsaken_GA Member Posts: 4,024
    i actually really hate tabbed terminal sessions. I like having 4 or 5 windows open at once on the same screen so I can see immediate results when I'm messing with something
  • tierstentiersten Member Posts: 4,505
    You can do that with any program that offers tabs for telnet. SecureCRT does it if I tell it to open the folder which contains all my console sessions that connect to my 2511.
  • DevilWAHDevilWAH Member Posts: 2,997 ■■■■■■■■□□
    i actually really hate tabbed terminal sessions. I like having 4 or 5 windows open at once on the same screen so I can see immediate results when I'm messing with something


    I agree, I went though a phase of trying teratem with tabs, but not being able to place windows side by side to see whats happening is ewwww. plus I find alt-tab to switch windows is quicker than tabs any way.
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  • purebluepureblue Member Posts: 13 ■□□□□□□□□□
    Putty CM (Connection manager) has a pretty good tabbed interface. Easy switching between tabs, CTRL-Left/Right arrow.
    I use it extensively both at real work and lab studies.
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  • itdaddyitdaddy Member Posts: 2,089 ■■■■□□□□□□
    haahha great response thanks guys. yeah I do think open windows would be cool idea to see the results..but for now just having say 5 routers and 3 cat switches bam to bam I can be at each one back and forth is a Godsend! with my new configs and types of connections I can make use of managed ports.

    vs ctrl+shift,6, x which can get old...from my accessr router 2511..
    and sometimes I cannot connect for some reason sometimes from my 2511 and have to reinitialize my reverse telnet configs with cut and past. then it works again..

    I didnt know putty could do that will have to check it out...what is CM? versionicon_cool.gif
  • tierstentiersten Member Posts: 4,505
    itdaddy wrote: »
    vs ctrl+shift,6, x which can get old...from my accessr router 2511..
    You don't have to do that. I've got my lab set so if you telnet to port 2001 on the 2511 then it connects you to line 1. 2002 goes to line 2. 2016 goes to line 16 etc...
  • itdaddyitdaddy Member Posts: 2,089 ■■■■□□□□□□
    tiersten


    I dont understand, bud.say one of my routers is called R1760_1
    I type that in command line and bam I am logged into my 1760.
    Then in order for me to get out of that session, I have to do the key combo (ctrl+shift, 6, x) to exit that R1760_1 session? how do you end your sessions? I have never been taught anything else to end a session
    using reverse telnet with my 2511? can you explain how you do that?
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  • Forsaken_GAForsaken_GA Member Posts: 4,024
    Nope, just telnet directly to the port

    dayne@porthos:~$ telnet 192.168.55.3 2005
    Trying 192.168.55.3...
    Connected to 192.168.55.3.
    Escape character is '^]'.

    R1>
    telnet> quit
    Connection closed.
    dayne@porthos:~$

    Once you close the telnet session, it kills the connection, no need to telnet directly to the access server
  • itdaddyitdaddy Member Posts: 2,089 ■■■■□□□□□□
    forsaken

    but once I kill the telnet session with exit or quit
    don't i have to reestablish session with say the name of the session like in my case it is R1760_1. When I kill the session doesnt it kill it from my acces list? normally i get out of each telnet session with ctrl+shift, 6,x and then I just type the squence number in my show session command list and if say my R1760_1 is session 5 I just type in a 5. If i quit a telnet session I have to type in th entire R1760_1 session name to reestablish it and then it gives it a new sequence number...?
  • tierstentiersten Member Posts: 4,505
    itdaddy wrote: »
    but once I kill the telnet session with exit or quit
    don't i have to reestablish session with say the name of the session like in my case it is R1760_1. When I kill the session doesnt it kill it from my acces list? normally i get out of each telnet session with ctrl+shift, 6,x and then I just type the squence number in my show session command list and if say my R1760_1 is session 5 I just type in a 5. If i quit a telnet session I have to type in th entire R1760_1 session name to reestablish it and then it gives it a new sequence number...?
    Each telnet connection is a specific connection to a routers console port. Once you connect you're straight into the console port of that router. You don't need to type anything extra. If you close that particular connection then you disconnect from that specific router. You don't need to ever telnet to the access server itself.

    Your original method of doing the tabbed sessions was to connect to each router over its network interface which wouldn't work if you start altering the topology or make a mistake.
  • Forsaken_GAForsaken_GA Member Posts: 4,024
    itdaddy wrote: »
    forsaken

    but once I kill the telnet session with exit or quit
    don't i have to reestablish session with say the name of the session like in my case it is R1760_1. When I kill the session doesnt it kill it from my acces list? normally i get out of each telnet session with ctrl+shift, 6,x and then I just type the squence number in my show session command list and if say my R1760_1 is session 5 I just type in a 5. If i quit a telnet session I have to type in th entire R1760_1 session name to reestablish it and then it gives it a new sequence number...?

    No need to ctrl-shift-6,x anything unless you're telnetting from inside IOS. If you set the access server up right, you can just telnet to the access servers IP with the proper port for the line and you telnet directly into the console port of the router on that line using your native telnet client. Access servers aren't capable of only reverse telnet, they handle regular telnet too :)
  • gorebrushgorebrush Member Posts: 2,743 ■■■■■■■□□□
    Why use tabbed telnet when you have 30" of desktop real estate :D
  • jovan88jovan88 Member Posts: 393
    NM-16A is the only way to go
  • Forsaken_GAForsaken_GA Member Posts: 4,024
    jovan88 wrote: »
    NM-16A is the only way to go

    Eh, it all depends on what you can lay your hands on for the cheapest. There are good deals on 2511's
  • CSCOnoobCSCOnoob Member Posts: 120
    Forsaken_GA

    What's your IOS for your 2511? I noticed that you have line 1 16. For whatever reason, I only have line 0 4. I am using c2500-is-l.122-15.T17.bin.
  • tierstentiersten Member Posts: 4,505
    CSCOnoob wrote: »
    Forsaken_GA

    What's your IOS for your 2511? I noticed that you have line 1 16. For whatever reason, I only have line 0 4. I am using c2500-is-l.122-15.T17.bin.
    What does "show line" report?
  • Forsaken_GAForsaken_GA Member Posts: 4,024
    CSCOnoob wrote: »
    Forsaken_GA

    What's your IOS for your 2511? I noticed that you have line 1 16. For whatever reason, I only have line 0 4. I am using c2500-is-l.122-15.T17.bin.

    Directory of flash:/

    1 -rw- 8011320 <no date> /c2500-i-l.121-14.bin
  • CSCOnoobCSCOnoob Member Posts: 120
    Is this limitation dependent to IOS? I've read somewhere that it is. However, one guy with the same IOS as mine has line 1 16.

    @tiersten

    I'll let you know tomorrow. I won't have time to check it out right now or when I get home tonight.
  • Forsaken_GAForsaken_GA Member Posts: 4,024
    CSCOnoob wrote: »
    Is this limitation dependent to IOS? I've read somewhere that it is. However, one guy with the same IOS as mine has line 1 16.

    I'd think it was more hardware dependant than anything else. I have 16 async ports, hence lines 1 to 16
  • CSCOnoobCSCOnoob Member Posts: 120
    I'd think it was more hardware dependant than anything else. I have 16 async ports, hence lines 1 to 16

    Oooopsss. I knew there was something wrong. I am talking about line vty 0 15. LMAO! Noticed yours had line vty 0 4. Nevermind then. I just read somewhere that they're getting line vty 0 15 with their 2511.
  • itdaddyitdaddy Member Posts: 2,089 ■■■■□□□□□□
    Forsaken GA


    I am going to try that tonight and tiersten

    you are 100 percent right on if I want to change some things
    will try to redo my access router this week. thanks for some ideas
    I just love that telnet tabbed look; i can have all my systems all 16 open and just go back and forth teach one..love it....30" screen would be nice but I am not sure my eyes could handle telnet sessions all over the place ahahahh thanks guys will try my telneting into my 25111..never knew I could do that....make sense though....icon_cheers.gif
  • itdaddyitdaddy Member Posts: 2,089 ■■■■□□□□□□
    ah crap I can only telnet into my 2511 5 times vty 0 4 is only 5 telnet sessions what if i want 16 simultaneous telnet connections how can i do that?
  • mikej412mikej412 Member Posts: 10,086 ■■■■■■■■■■
    itdaddy wrote: »
    ah crap I can only telnet into my 2511 5 times vty 0 4 is only 5 telnet sessions what if i want 16 simultaneous telnet connections how can i do that?
    configure vty 0 through 15.

    Check one of your switches, since they usually default to 16 vtys.

    You'll probably see the config for the default line vty 0 4 and then the config for line vty 5 15

    And you might want to add an "extra vty" in case you need to actually telnet into the access server to clear a line.

    But on my 2511 I see one session on vty 0 -- and then all my other sessions show up on ttys, not vtys. If I telnet in and then reverse telnet from there, I'm using a 2nd vty.

    Are you telneting into the access server on each tab and then connecting to each of the other routers from there? Or do you telnet to the ip address of the access server AND the port number of the line to gain "direct access" to the remote router console port?

    Here I have several connections to my lab routers by telneting to the access server ip and port number of the line I want to connect to -- those are the TTY sessions.

    The VTY sessions are the 3 telnet sessions I did make to the 2511 (out of the default 5 I have configured).
    R2511-2# show line
       Tty Typ     Tx/Rx    A Modem  Roty AccO AccI   Uses   Noise  Overruns   Int
         0 CTY              -    -      -    -    -      0       0     0/0       -
         1 TTY   9600/9600  -    -      -    -    -      0       0     0/0       -
         2 TTY   9600/9600  -    -      -    -    -      0       0     0/0       -
         3 TTY   9600/9600  -    -      -    -    -      0       0     0/0       -
         4 TTY   9600/9600  -    -      -    -    -      0       0     0/0       -
         5 TTY   9600/9600  -    -      -    -    -      0       0     0/0       -
    *    6 TTY   9600/9600  -    -      -    -    -      1       0     0/0       -
    *    7 TTY   9600/9600  -    -      -    -    -      1       1     0/0       -
         8 TTY   9600/9600  -    -      -    -    -      1      38     0/0       -
    *    9 TTY   9600/9600  -    -      -    -    -      1       2     0/0       -
    *   10 TTY   9600/9600  -    -      -    -    -      1       1     0/0       -
    *   11 TTY   9600/9600  -    -      -    -    -      1       1     0/0       -
    *   12 TTY   9600/9600  -    -      -    -    -      1       1     0/0       -
        13 TTY   9600/9600  -    -      -    -    -      0       0     0/0       -
        14 TTY   9600/9600  -    -      -    -    -      0       1     0/0       -
    *   15 TTY   9600/9600  -    -      -    -    -      1      52     0/0       -
    *   16 TTY   9600/9600  -    -      -    -    -      1      50     0/0       -
        17 AUX   9600/9600  -    -      -    -    -      0       0     0/0       -
    *   18 VTY              -    -      -    -    -      3       0     0/0       -
    *   19 VTY              -    -      -    -    -      1       0     0/0       -
    *   20 VTY              -    -      -    -    -      1       0     0/0       -
        21 VTY              -    -      -    -    -      0       0     0/0       -
       Tty Typ     Tx/Rx    A Modem  Roty AccO AccI   Uses   Noise  Overruns   Int
    
        22 VTY              -    -      -    -    -      0       0     0/0       -
    
    R2511-2#
    
    I have 7 telnet sessions through the 2511, 3 telnet sessions into the 2511, and 1 additional session from one of the 2511 telnet sessions another remote router.
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  • itdaddyitdaddy Member Posts: 2,089 ■■■■□□□□□□
    good idea. thanks mike appreciate input. yeah I love my 2511 just i never knew how to have the multipe tabs until now with ctrl+shift, 6,x key combo from 2511 but i love the tabbed sessions so i can flip back in forth
    via mouse click ;) love that i can have like 16 sessions and flip flip flip to each one trying new stuff fast...thanks will let you know how it goes
  • itdaddyitdaddy Member Posts: 2,089 ■■■■□□□□□□
    mikej

    I am confused...very easy ;(

    okay I want 16 tabbed sessions using my telnet gui program.
    I have a 2511 access router that has 2 octopus cables
    so 16 total asyn ports. but if I only have 0 to 4 vty sessions available
    to me how can i take advantage of using a switch or teln thru my access router right? can you explain it to me thanksicon_redface.gif
  • mikej412mikej412 Member Posts: 10,086 ■■■■■■■■■■
    My access server 192.168.104.52. I telnet into that since the access server console cable is attached to an older laptop that has the built in serial port, not this newer and nicer laptop.

    Then to access my R1 router from this laptop, I telnet to 192.168.104.52:2001
    Then to access my R2 router from this laptop, I telnet to 192.168.104.52:2002
    Then to access my R3 router from this laptop, I telnet to 192.168.104.52:2003
    Then to access my R4 router from this laptop, I telnet to 192.168.104.52:2004
    etc...
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  • itdaddyitdaddy Member Posts: 2,089 ■■■■□□□□□□
    So you telnet into your access router 192.168.104.52
    and telnet to each port that was configured with the reverse
    telnet config? I will try that and see if it works not sure if i have my
    access router configured correctly. will try it and let you know.
    Sounds great though..be back soon....icon_study.gif
  • mikej412mikej412 Member Posts: 10,086 ■■■■■■■■■■
    itdaddy wrote: »
    So you telnet into your access router 192.168.104.52
    and telnet to each port that was configured with the reverse
    telnet config?
    No.....

    You telnet directly from your PC/Laptop. As I said, I only telnet INTO the access server to monitor the lines or clear lines if I have a problem.

    ALL telnets are from your PC/Laptop.

    You use your access server's IP address that you can reach from your home network/pc/laptop.

    telnet 192.168.104.52:2001
    telnet 192.168.104.52:2002
    telnet 192.168.104.52:2003
    telnet 192.168.104.52:2004
    telnet 192.168.104.52:2005
    telnet 192.168.104.52:2006
    telnet 192.168.104.52:2007
    telnet 192.168.104.52:2008
    telnet 192.168.104.52:2009
    telnet 192.168.104.52:2010
    telnet 192.168.104.52:2011
    telnet 192.168.104.52:2012
    telnet 192.168.104.52:2013
    telnet 192.168.104.52:2014
    telnet 192.168.104.52

    That gives me access to my CCIE R&S lab routers, switches, back bone routers, frame switch, access server, and another router that accesses the Security/Voice/SP networks of my lab.
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  • itdaddyitdaddy Member Posts: 2,089 ■■■■□□□□□□
    I see so mike look at below config I have so I edited
    but normally I used the loopback 100.1.1.1. Is this wrong
    should I use my ethernet port 192.168.15.217? subnet 15 is
    my LAN subnet /24.. do I have it wrong or can I just telnet into
    the 15.217:portnumber and it will work?

    R2511#sh run
    Building configuration...
    Current configuration : 1435 bytes
    !
    version 12.1
    no service single-slot-reload-enable
    service timestamps debug uptime
    service timestamps log uptime
    no service password-encryption
    !
    hostname R2511
    !
    boot system flash c2500-i-l.121-27b.bin
    logging buffered 64000 debugging
    enable password ccie
    !
    !
    !
    !
    !
    ip subnet-zero
    no ip domain-lookup
    ip host r1760_4 2008 100.1.1.1
    ip host r1760_3 2007 192.168.15.217
    ip host r1760_2 2006 100.1.1.1
    ip host r1760_1 2005 100.1.1.1
    ip host s2950_3 2004 100.1.1.1
    ip host s2950_2 2003 100.1.1.1
    ip host s2950_1 2002 100.1.1.1
    ip host S3550 2001 100.1.1.1
    !
    !
    !
    interface Loopback0
    ip address 100.1.1.1 255.255.255.255
    !
    !
    !
    interface Ethernet0
    description Public Telnet Access AUI port
    ip address 192.168.15.217 255.255.255.0
    no cdp enable

  • itdaddyitdaddy Member Posts: 2,089 ■■■■□□□□□□
    omg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    iT WORKS like you said it would mike holy crap i telnet into

    192.168.15.217:2001, 2002, 2003 and it goes to each machine holy crapeee
    wowoowowowowowo I can use my access router and have my tabbed gui
    thank you so much mike you are so cool. thanks for your tme and help yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!icon_cheers.gif

    it freaking works! yeah yeah..so cool I am so glad I wanted to use my 2511 beause i can access all1 6 devices and really config differen things without interupting my console session thank god and than you big guy thanks!!!!!!!!!! have a great nite bud!icon_cool.gif
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