cannot telnet into 8600 anymore 1

[catbert316]

For some reason, I cannot telnet into my 8600 anymore. I can console in and use device manager but it appears telnet is dead. Can the telnet daemon (assuming telnetd means daemon) died like this? How do you restart it without doing a full reboot or can you? What causes this? I am using 3.7.10 code.

Thanks for any help.

 

[anthonyanderberg]

People have reported that their 8600 doesn't clear telnet sessions correctly and once the max number is reached no more can be open... as I recall there was a command that could clear open sessions.

Try using the search button above to search this group for '8600 telnet' - that'll be a lot more useful (and reliable) than my memory.

 

[HungryHouse]

Is it possible that someone turned off the TELNET boot flag?
Or it wasnt saved in the bootconfig and unit got rebooted?

 

[catbert316]

It is possible. I was on vacation for 2 weeks when this suddenly happened. No one is claiming responsibility of course. I did notice in the log file it shows an entry around July 4 that the HW info on card 5 is becoming the master. It almost looks like the switch was booted for some reason. I think I will schedule a time to boot the switch and hopefully it will clear out whatever is wrong.

Thanks for the replies.

 

[HungryHouse]

Check the bootconfig on 5, cause I am intimating that when 5 became the master, your bootconfigs flags were not the same as those on 6.
I would not merely reboot the box, but rather, enable TELNET on the current SF and check over your bootconfigs to make sure they are the same.
An easy way to check this is to right click on the 869X SF ibn slot 5 and look at the BOOT tab and see if TELNET is checked. If its not, go ahead and enable it, and remember to save your bootconfig, and then reboot to trigger the flag.
If you prefer CLI, then:
"Passport 8606#5: config bootconfig show flags"
(you may find out some other interesting things on here as well- compare this list to that on CPU - slot 6)
If telnet is FALSE, then do the following:
"config bootconfig flags telnetd true"
"save bootconfig"

I hope this is helpful.
-HH

 

[catbert316]

Thanks a bunch HH. This is weird. Card 6 is in standby mode. The boot tab shows nothing at all. No files and nothing checked. Card 5 is currently active and telnet was not checked. I checked the telnet box and saved the boot.cfg now I am waiting to boot it. I am going to assume I should have card 6 set up the same as card 5 so if it ever goes down again it should boot up without any surprises. Since card 6 did not even have the config or image locations set, I think it might have booted back to card 5. The logs should confirm this.

Thanks a lot for the help. This is far better than 1800 4 nortel.

 

[HungryHouse]

You're very welcome.
Regarding the boot tab showing NOTHING? ouch. Is it possible that you're bootconfig got completely hosed?
Peer telnet into SLOT 6 CPU and check bootconfig there and see what you get.

Have a good one catbert.

-HH