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RE: Loss of Telnet Capability to 6509

  • From: Jason Frisvold
  • Date: Wed Jul 28 15:38:50 2004

Do you have ACL's restricting access to the vty's?  I've seen instances where telnet ports get locked up because of port scanning and/or attacks...

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Jason Frisvold
Penteledata


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard J. Sears [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 2:54 PM
> To: Nanog
> Subject: Loss of Telnet Capability to 6509
> 
> 
> 
> We posted this to cisco-nsp but someone suggested posting it here as
> well...
> 
> 
> 
> We have a 6509 running a SUP720 in IOS only mode (no cat os). 
> 
> At around 4am this morning, we lost our ability to telnet to 
> the router.
> Running a tcpdump shows that the router never responds to the telnet
> request. 
> 
> All functions and interfaces on the router seem fine (bgp, 
> etherchannel,
> ibgp, vtp, hsrp) and I can console into the sup with no 
> problems at all,
> we just cannot telnet into it. The CPU is at around 6%.
> 
> I have checked all access lists on the router, none were added/removed
> or modified on line vty that would cause this problem. All logging
> appears normal.
> 
> We are running Version 12.2(17a)SX3.
> 
> Anyone have a similar problem or know how to check or restart 
> the telnet
> process on the router without a reload...?
> 
> 
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