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Julius
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Tue Jun 22, 2004 9:01 pm Post subject:
Problems Accessing 28115 |
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Like everyone else, I have a synoptics 28115 that I acquired waaay
back when. Originally when I purchased it, I wanted to learn a) how
to use a managed switch and b) get a nice 100mb connect in the house!
After using it for several months I put it away during a move and
received some nifty, smaller new switches as house warming gifts.
Great! Its been sitting in a closet for the past 3 years and now that
I have a /27 to my name I want to put this bad boy to use.
I plugged in cable that should be good into the service port and
pluged that into my rj-45 to DB9 converter, fired up hyperterm
9600/8/none/1/hardware and boom nothing happens. I tried another
converter and com2 with no luck. I tried manually changing the IP
address on the menu however it says "READ ONLY VALUE" and I cannot
change it (same for gateway, subnet etc). I assume maybe it's because
it expects it to be DHCP only? (a setting that can only be set/changed
from the service port - I have no idea just thinking.)
I read through some of the manual and learned a lot about this device
however it doesn't help my situation any! Am I using the correct
cable? I don't know for sure - in theory this is a 'terminal' cable
but I could have the wrong one. Maybe I need to check out post:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=KUJK6.3%24wN1.60662%40news1.i1.net&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3D28115%2Bservice%2Bport%2Bgroup:comp.dcom.sys.bay-networks%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26group%3Dcomp.dcom.sys.bay-networks%26selm%3DKUJK6.3%2524wN1.60662%2540news1.i1.net%26rnum%3D1
In any event, is there some kind of hw override that will allow me to
completely reset the thing (even if it removes the latest image which
is 28k2116 I believe)? Anything I can do at all what so ever!? Any
assistance is appreciated.
Thank you
J Feel free to email me at perkins_AT_juli_DOT_us |
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mbailly at nortelnetworks
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Fri Jun 25, 2004 4:49 am Post subject:
Re: Problems Accessing 28115 |
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Yup,
this cable pinout looks good to me. Oh wait, this is from me. :-)
The cable is very particular, I think some apple printers used the
same cable. I wouldn't recommend Hyperterminal either, get something
else in shareware, but not that aweful HyperTerminal SW.
Pls. remember that the box does not autonegotiate - you will have to
set up things manually. Keep in mind how old this baby is. If the pain
gets too bad, you can get a Netgear switch doing more for only a few
bucks, I believe:-(
Hope this helps,
Markus
subs@hellish.org (Julius) wrote:
| Quote: | Like everyone else, I have a synoptics 28115 that I acquired waaay
back when. Originally when I purchased it, I wanted to learn a) how
to use a managed switch and b) get a nice 100mb connect in the house!
After using it for several months I put it away during a move and
received some nifty, smaller new switches as house warming gifts.
Great! Its been sitting in a closet for the past 3 years and now that
I have a /27 to my name I want to put this bad boy to use.
I plugged in cable that should be good into the service port and
pluged that into my rj-45 to DB9 converter, fired up hyperterm
9600/8/none/1/hardware and boom nothing happens. I tried another
converter and com2 with no luck. I tried manually changing the IP
address on the menu however it says "READ ONLY VALUE" and I cannot
change it (same for gateway, subnet etc). I assume maybe it's because
it expects it to be DHCP only? (a setting that can only be set/changed
from the service port - I have no idea just thinking.)
I read through some of the manual and learned a lot about this device
however it doesn't help my situation any! Am I using the correct
cable? I don't know for sure - in theory this is a 'terminal' cable
but I could have the wrong one. Maybe I need to check out post:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=KUJK6.3%24wN1.60662%40news1.i1.net&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3D28115%2Bservice%2Bport%2Bgroup:comp.dcom.sys.bay-networks%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26group%3Dcomp.dcom.sys.bay-networks%26selm%3DKUJK6.3%2524wN1.60662%2540news1.i1.net%26rnum%3D1
In any event, is there some kind of hw override that will allow me to
completely reset the thing (even if it removes the latest image which
is 28k2116 I believe)? Anything I can do at all what so ever!? Any
assistance is appreciated.
Thank you
J Feel free to email me at perkins_AT_juli_DOT_us |
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Paul Tichy
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Sun Jun 27, 2004 6:05 pm Post subject:
Re: Problems Accessing 28115 |
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The only way to default the switch is through the console.
The following simple pinout straight from the 28k manual works
for terminals with flow control disabled.
RJ-45f -> Signal DB-9f Signal Notes
1 blue -
2 orange -
3 black rcv 3 xmt
4 red -
5 green gnd 5 gnd
6 yellow xmt 2 rcv
7 brown -
8 white or gray
Note flow control is disabled, so your console software
should be set to 9600,8,n,1 and no flow control.
I usually also recommend that the Hyperterminal issued
with Windows installations be replaced with Hyperterminal
Private Edition from www.hilgraeve.com/htpe. Particularly
on NT/W2k/XP type systems this solves a LOT of problems.
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From: Julius <subs@hellish.org>
Subject: Problems Accessing 28115
Date: 22 Jun 2004 10:01:00 -0700
Location: news://news.houston.sbcglobal.net/comp.dcom.sys.bay-networks/a836710a.0406220900.38934bcc@posting.google.com
To: "comp.dcom.sys.bay-networks" <@news:comp.dcom.sys.bay-networks@news.houston.sbcglobal.net>
Like everyone else, I have a synoptics 28115 that I acquired waaay
back when. Originally when I purchased it, I wanted to learn a) how
to use a managed switch and b) get a nice 100mb connect in the house!
After using it for several months I put it away during a move and
received some nifty, smaller new switches as house warming gifts.
Great! Its been sitting in a closet for the past 3 years and now that
I have a /27 to my name I want to put this bad boy to use.
I plugged in cable that should be good into the service port and
pluged that into my rj-45 to DB9 converter, fired up hyperterm
9600/8/none/1/hardware and boom nothing happens. I tried another
converter and com2 with no luck. I tried manually changing the IP
address on the menu however it says "READ ONLY VALUE" and I cannot
change it (same for gateway, subnet etc). I assume maybe it's because
it expects it to be DHCP only? (a setting that can only be set/changed
from the service port - I have no idea just thinking.)
I read through some of the manual and learned a lot about this device
however it doesn't help my situation any! Am I using the correct
cable? I don't know for sure - in theory this is a 'terminal' cable
but I could have the wrong one. Maybe I need to check out post:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=KUJK6.3%24wN1.60662%40news1.i1.net&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3D28115%2Bservice%2Bport%2Bgroup:comp.dcom.sys.bay-networks%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26group%3Dcomp.dcom.sys.bay-networks%26selm%3DKUJK6.3%2524wN1.60662%2540news1.i1.net%26rnum%3D1
In any event, is there some kind of hw override that will allow me to
completely reset the thing (even if it removes the latest image which
is 28k2116 I believe)? Anything I can do at all what so ever!? Any
assistance is appreciated.
Thank you
J Feel free to email me at perkins_AT_juli_DOT_us |
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