Subject: Re: Boot without an active serial console?
To: Chris Ross <cross+netbsd@distal.com>
From: john heasley <heas@shrubbery.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/22/2007 20:11:52
Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 09:41:29AM -0700, Brian Buhrow:
> 	We have a number of NetBSD machines plugged into a Cisco terminal
> server and they boot fine with unattended consoles. 
> 
> The config for those lines looks like:
> 
> line 37 63
>  session-timeout 20 
>  exec-timeout 10800 0
>  no exec
   ^^^^^^
This is the key command.  Without it, the cisco is spitting out Username
prompts and causing interruption of the boot process.

A conflict of flow control (flowcontrol (soft|hard|none)) when the cisco is
configured for software flow control also seems to interrupt the process.