My rack arrived yesterday. Was very happy and suprised to see i actually got 4 x 3560 instead of 2 x 3550 and 2 x 3560. There was a mistake in the rack though i had 2620 xm
instead of 2611 for r3 of the ine topology. This is the router with the 4 serial and 2 ethernet ports. This will have to go back as firstly it just keeps booting to rom mon when trying to load the ios so obviously does not support and the hardware only has 1 ethernet port so it does not fit right in the rack. I should be able to get replacement by the end of next week i am hoping. I am not too disappointed as next week i will entirely be working on the 3560 switches as i am concertrating on switch technologies next week.
Overall the rack setup went fine it takes a while just to unpack and get all the cabling togther but the following guide from ine is straight forward to get the right setup
http://www.ine.com/topology.htm
I am just finishing setting up my access server. I was working all day today so did not get much time today. The access server is also straight forward to setup.But i notice alot of the documentation on the web just basically says do this command and it works which is not really true. Here is a bit more description of my findings of the process.
You basically need a router with 2 asynch cards & 2 octal cables. You plug the large connection (not very technical but works for simplicity) of the octal cable into your access server router then there is just whole bunch of rj45 connection of each octal labelled 0-7.
You plug a rj45 into each network devices console. Keeping track of the numbers to device.
Then the config
Give your loopback any ip address
so
int lo0
ip address 90.90.90.90 255.255.255.255
no shut
then you want do a
sh line - this is to see what lines your async card has taken up it not always 1-16
access#sh line
Tty Typ Tx/Rx A Modem Roty AccO AccI Uses Noise Overruns Int
* 0 CTY - - - - - 1 0 0/0 -
33 TTY 9600/9600 - - - - - 0 0 0/0 -
34 TTY 9600/9600 - - - - - 2 0 0/0 -
35 TTY 9600/9600 - - - - - 1 0 0/0 -
36 TTY 9600/9600 - - - - - 1 0 0/0 -
37 TTY 9600/9600 - - - - - 1 0 0/0 -
38 TTY 9600/9600 - - - - - 0 0 0/0 -
39 TTY 9600/9600 - - - - - 0 0 0/0 -
40 TTY 9600/9600 - - - - - 0 0 0/0 -
41 TTY 9600/9600 - - - - - 0 0 0/0 -
42 TTY 9600/9600 - - - - - 0 0 0/0 -
43 TTY 9600/9600 - - - - - 0 0 0/0 -
44 TTY 9600/9600 - - - - - 0 0 0/0 -
45 TTY 9600/9600 - - - - - 0 0 0/0 -
46 TTY 9600/9600 - - - - - 0 0 0/0 -
47 TTY 9600/9600 - - - - - 0 0 0/0 -
48 TTY 9600/9600 - - - - - 0 0 0/0 -
65 AUX 9600/9600 - - - - - 0 0 0/0 -
* 66 VTY - - - - - 8 0 0/0 -
67 VTY - - - - - 4 0 0/0 -
68 VTY - - - - - 0 0 0/0 -
69 VTY - - - - - 0 0 0/0 -
Tty Typ Tx/Rx A Modem Roty AccO AccI Uses Noise Overruns Int
70 VTY - - - - - 0 0 0/0 -
71 VTY - - - - - 0 0 0/0 -
72 VTY - - - - - 0 0 0/0 -
73 VTY - - - - - 0 0 0/0 -
74 VTY - - - - - 0 0 0/0 -
75 VTY - - - - - 0 0 0/0 -
76 VTY - - - - - 0 0 0/0 -
77 VTY - - - - - 0 0 0/0 -
78 VTY - - - - - 0 0 0/0 -
79 VTY - - - - - 0 0 0/0 -
80 VTY - - - - - 0 0 0/0 -
81 VTY - - - - - 0 0 0/0 -
Line(s) not in async mode -or- with no hardware support:
1-32, 49-64
From showline notice my lines start 33-48 are in asynch mode.
What you do now is enable telnet on these asynch line. Technically what is happening is you are reverse telnetting to the access server ip address.(90.90.90.90 in my case)
So you need to enable telnet on these asych lines
so in config mode
line 33-48
transport input telnet
so 33 in my case will reference the first asynch card octal and it will be the rj45 labelled 0 cable
35- will be the octal rj45 label 1 and so on
when i get to 41 this is referencing rj45 labelled 0 on the second octal card
so now what you need to do is name the devices and associate them with your octal rj45 numbers
so in config mode
ip host SW1 2033 90.90.90.90
ip host sw2 2033 90.90.90.90
and so on
so it is ip host "devicename" 20"octal rj 45 number" ip address of lo0 of access server,
Then from exec mode just type the host name you give and enter
so
s1
this should then connect you to your s1 device.
To return to your access server type ctrl+shift 6 x
once you connect to all devices on the acccess server type
sh session
it will give a list of open telnet connections
To resume a telnet session with a device just type the number associated with it
like 1 and enter would bring me to switch 1 as it was my first open telnet session.
I have to try stop playing with the rack as i have to finish of the first ine cbt by the end of the weekend if i want to keep to schedule
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