On or about Sun, 21 Oct 2001 21:57:56 -0500 (CDT) Ursula A. Kallio reportedly said... > I tried your suggestion and this occured: > > [uak at wool uak]$ telnet 10.0.0.1 > Trying 10.0.0.1... > Connected to 10.0.0.1. > Escape character is '^]'. > Connection closed by foreign host. > > Any other suggestions? TIA. > uak You have telnet disabled on the router. If you want in, you'll need to connect the serial management cable to the router and a COM port on the PC. Use Linux minicom to open a terminal session (38,400 8N1) on the connected COM port. A couple of CRs should get you a password: prompt from the cisco. Enter your exec password, or if you haven't set one, just hit another CR. If you need to know how to upgrade the cbos or where to get the images, I wrote a 'cbos-linux mini-HOWTO' which is in the list archives a couple of months back. It's easy.. hope this helps, -.bill.layer.- -.those who are talking don't know, and those who know aren't talking.- -.frogtown.- -.minnesota.- -.u.s.a.-