RE: [TCLUG:8187] what about that Cisco 675, anyway?

[Unni Nambiar <unambiar@Legato.COM>]

> Okay, now that we're all talking about DSL, here's my beef. 
> Why is it that
> I can only get into my router from windows? I've spent hours with my
> serial port plugged into the Cisco's management port trying 
> to cu out to
> that port, playing with stty and setserial, even trying 
> minicom, bit to no
> avail. Oddly, all I have to do is boot windows and use any 
> telnet app that
> can connect to a COM port, and I get a login prompt from it. As I am
> trying to find reasons to *not* boot into ... that OS, this 
> *should* be
> possible under Linux, no?
> 
> Secondly, some of you may know that the Cisco 675 is not 
> *specifically* a
> Cisco product. It was originally the NetSpeed SpeedRunner 
> 204, until Cisco
> bought the company. Sadly, mine _says_ Cisco on it, but still contains
> NetSpeed's firmware, nsos. Should I/Can I upgrade this thing 
> to cbos or
> whatever Cisco would use for it? Better to to play with it, I 
> suppose...
> 

Don't know if any of this applies for 'nsos', but my Cisco 675 has telnet
daemon running listening, i believe, on eth0, not the serial port.

cbos#show ps

This tells you what is running on the router.  You should be able to find
out if telnet is present and running.

cbos#show interface

This shows all network interfaces.  Besides wan0 & wan0-0 and others there
should also be an eth0.  Get the ip address of the eth0 interface.  Should
be 10.0.0.1 if you also have the DHCP server enabled and you've not changed
the default pool.

Then from your linux machine 'telnet <ip address>' gets you to the cbos
password prompt.  I didn't need to go via the serial port, like
hyperterminal does on windoze.

-Unni