putty and accessing the bcm50

[ramblingrebel]

I just put a new multi-image hard drive in a customers bcm50 and everything goes according to the manual until it gets to the point of me PUTTY'g into it to select image. It keeps saying "connection refused" no matter what i try. I can ping the chassis on the OAM port, just nothing else. I had to enter a static address on my PC, so i'm guessing the dhcp isn't working yet either. I have tried telnet, ftp, etc but nothing. I'm a bit stalled here, any idea's?

also, this was a chassis that started out life as a pre-release 3.0 and got keycoded up to a release 3.0. I have the license file, so when/ if i ever do get through the putty attempt, what release do i load, the previous release or the "keycoded" release?

(I'm stuck on page 53 of 88 of the bcm50-rls installation manual (I can try and post the page if required)

thanks in advance

rr

 

[ramblingrebel]

i'll swing over to the LAN1 port and run wireshark. I did get ethernet activity, but no response on DHCP request for an IP addess. I putty to almost everything in my lab here so i am a little familiar with it. There's not even a switch involved here, just my laptop and the bcm50 and firewall is shut down on the laptop. I just can't get over the "connection refused" (and i see this in wireshark too, in my feeble mind, it means its alive and answering.)

i checked my cd's and i only have a rls 1.0 to rls 3.0 upgrade cd. I don't understand the WinHex thing, if i do a sector by sector copy to a new hard drive from a working system, and that system is rls 6.0 (and i don't have a rls 6.0 license on this chassis) will this technique work?

I'm a 30 nortel ex-engineer and am thinking of giving up doing anything with nortel chassis and moving on. I don't even know what network switches to recommend anymore, i loved the Baystacks. Have been looking at ip office and not sure about them, and a few other voip chassis people are trying to get me involved in, but support is a huge issue (i'm not getting stuck on site anymore because a manufacturer has buggy s/w or firmware or hardware anymore)

anyway, i'll try the lan1 port and run wireshark and see what it spits out.

thanks rr

 

[ramblingrebel]

well, i didn't see any traffic on the LAN1 port, so i decided to power down, deinstall hard drive to take back to supplier and get a refund/ credit and throw the BCM50 out. For some reason or other i put power back on it, thought..."hhmm...i wonder" and yup, i now get past the "puTTY issue" after i cycled power on the bcm. So i get out the install guide and nope, no reference to "cycling power", so i got out my crayons and wrote it in as step 1, sub-step a on my install guide.

thanks for letting me rant.

we'll see how far this goes, i'll keep my crayons out and handy though.

rr

 

[Firebird Scrambler]

Hello RR. Most Nortel guides have missing information and that is one good reason why we tend to use these forums. I assume that you are now installing it via the LAN1 Ethernet port?.


All the best

Firebird Scrambler
Meridian 1 / Succession and BCM / Norstar Programmer in the UK

http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidbromley

If it's working, then leave it alone!.

 

[4x4jackson]

Just had the same issue this morning and the power cycle did it for me too. Thanks for the post RR!