Foundry switch - CLI access

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Long shot here I know, but does anyone use/has anyone used in the past Foundry switches? I have inherited a nice big backbone switch from a clearout at work and want to put it into my network at home, but can't seem to telnet into it. No matter what I try - every combination of baud rate, bitrate, flow control, parity and stop bits fails. All I want to do is get into the sumbitch to wipe the config on it - if I could even see the CLI to interrupt the bootloader it would be a start - I could figure it out from there, but I'm not even getting over the hump.

Foundry are being spiteful about giving me a support login - unsurprising since the switch is well out of warranty and we replaced all our core with HP last year

Anyone got any experience/suggestions?

 

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We have had some Foundry kit at work. I'll ask around tomorrow.

Model number would probably help.

Harry.

 

Cheers guys

Sparks - pretty sure the telnet port is the same as it was, I'm going to portscan it when I get the chance.

Harry - its a Bigiron 4000 chassis, management module is B8GMR3-A

Cheers!

 

One of the experts here says that the most likely reason is that you are using a rollover cable. You need to unroll it, i.e. use a straight though cable.

Apparently this is the major difference between Foundry and Cisco.

Harry.

 

Harry - cheers, I've tried a rollover and a straight through with nish success, so its not that.

 

Hm - our expert says that apart from the pinout the rest is identical to Cisco. And he doesn't have any other ideas!

Here is his email with links to pinout details:

Harry.

 

I've used Foundry switches, but the Telnet worked for me just fine. Can't remember if I had to enable it, but if so, it's similar to enabling it on Cisco's IOS.

When consoling instead of Telnetting, some of the higher-level switches DO require a different console cable from the Cisco one... I just used the cable included with the switch, so I am unsure of the pinout. All I know is that I had to mark that as my "Foundry" cable to distinguish it from my Cisco cables.