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Out-of-band access to your DE-CIX colocated equipment

Joseph Thorwest Updated by Joseph Thorwest

Out-of-band access for DE-CIX Frankfurt

Out-of-band access is only possible for DE-CIX Frankfurt colocation customers.

Terminal server overview

The following terminal servers exist:

PoP

Data center

Terminal server

DE-CIX FRA1

Interxion FRA1

oob10.de-cix.net

DE-CIX FRA2

Interxion FRA4

oob22.de-cix.net

DE-CIX FRA2

Interxion FRA4

oob23.de-cix.net

DE-CIX FRA3

Equinix FR7

oob30.de-cix.net

DE-CIX FRA6

Interxion FRA5

oob60.de-cix.net

Login procedure

oob10, oob22, oob23, oob30 and oob60.de-cix.net

You can use ssh to connect in-band to the terminal server or use an analog modem to connect out-of band. Please use your web-account (just ASN or full username) to authenticate against the oob-device:

~$ ssh as1234.johndoe@oob10.de-cix.net

Then you receive a menu prompt with all the associated ports you have access to.

To speed it up, you can add your port alias to your username when logging in. Your port alias is the concatenation of the oob-device number (10, 22, 23, 30 or 60) and your physical port (01-48). For oob10, you must write your physical port with an additional (!) leading zero → 001 - 048. When connecting to the device, separate your port alias with ':' from your username.

Example to access port 42 on oob22 directly:

~$ ssh as1234.johndoe:2242@oob22.de-cix.net

Example to access port 01 on oob10 directly:

~$ ssh as1234.johndoe:10001@oob10.de-cix.net

You are then prompted for your password:

Password:

Type the hot key to suspend the connection: <CTRL>Z

Enter the password associated with your web account when prompted. Then you see the prompt of your equipment.

To log off press CTRL-Z twice and type 'exit<ENTER>'.

If you want to send the Break-Signal to the box press CTRL-L.

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