[PLUG] OT: Cisco router

Charlie Schluting charlie at schluting.com
Thu Feb 17 20:03:14 UTC 2005


> Stafford A. Rau wrote:
> 
>>
>> It's not unheard of for the console port on the router itself to be bad.
>> It looks as though the router is booting up properly, and sending output
>> to the console, but not responding to input on the console.
>>

FWIW I have a laptop that won't send anything out the serial port from the 
keyboard, but it recieves just fine.

i.e. I can see the boot messages on a router, but can't send anything to it. 
It's definitely something wrong with the laptop's serial port, and is quite 
frustrating :)

-Charlie



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