Either way, both posts were very informative. It's like reading the MS-DOS 5 manual from front to back because you're stuck at your Dad's office during a 36 hour server emergency (hmm, I think I was in 7th grade summer break or so). Any other time, any other place, it'd bore you to tears, but it's kinda cool reading, and afterward you end up with a ton of miscellaneous tid-bits like this. Here's one for you: 'no ip mroute-cache' set on an ip numbered serial interface on a 2620 with 12.1.2XK2 will cause it to stop forwarding IP packets on the next and future boots through anything but a loopback interface (can't even ping an up,up FastEthernet interface from the router itself). XK1 or 12.1 general release versions don't have this problem. 'ip unnumbered on the same serial interface has no problem with the command. We went and numbered all interfaces (for testing and management reasons), and then found this problem (which only occurs if the serial drops, or if the router reboots). The next two days, we had extended power loss at a mountain site, and fiber back-hoed the next day, so we learned first-hand. TAC couldn't believe it, but we proved it with 3 different routers that were about to go out to new sites (we had 50 production sites configured like this, and were rather scared to know what happened if our core routers bounced and were about to go back and unnumber them all otherwise). Anyway, we set 'ip mroute-cache' on all routers right away once we learned it, and then will be upgrading all to 12.1.8 at the next allotted downtime. -- Jason Roysdon, CCNP+Security/CCDP, MCSE, CNA, Network+, A+ List email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://jason.artoo.net/ ""Paul Werner"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Actually, it is you who are correct. While my discussion and > the resulting tests were good for intellectual debate, they did > little to further answering the problem correctly. You have > stated correctly that "no exec" will work exactly as advertised > for *reverse* telnet connections only. Since my CS516 uses a > combination of forward and reverse connections, it was not > practical for me to use this methodology. Oh well, that's what > you get for making a post late at night when you are tired :-) > > The two replies that stated the reverse connection was made to > the wrong line are likely the root of the original problem. > > v/r, > > Paul Werner > > > > So, you are correct in what you say - but I think the most > often the > > problem > > being addressed is that the line is reported as in use and > the user > > isn't > > the one using it > > > ________________________________________________ > Get your own "800" number > Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more > http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag > FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html > Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=2659&t=2659 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
