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Chapter 3 CONSOLE AND TELNET MANAGEMENT
3.1 Connect To PC by RS-232 serial Cable
NOTE: If you have stacked several switches together, make sure you are working on
Master switch (switch with least Switch ID). Other slave switches’ management
interface allows only viewing the configuration by “guest” account.
To configure the system, connect the provided serial cable to a COM port on a PC or
notebook computer and to serial (console) port of the device. The console port of the
device is DCE already, so that you can connect the console port directly through PC
without the need of Null Modem.
A terminal program is required to make the software connection to the device. Windows'
Hyper Terminal program may be a good choice. It can be accessed from the Start menu.
Click START, then Programs, Accessories and then Hyper Terminal.
MS-DOS based terminal program such as PC-PLUS, PROCOMM, can also make the
connection with the device built-in software. The COM port should be configured as:
♦ Baud : 9600
♦ Parity : None
♦ Data bits : 8
♦ Stop bits : 1
♦ Flow Control : None
If you are using Windows 95/NT/98/2000/XP, launch “HyperTerminal”, create a new
connection, and adjust settings as below:
Please then power on the switch; launch the new terminal program you just set up. Press
“Enter” key, then login screen appears. Please check chapter 3.3 for detail on console
management.
3.2 Telnet
To access the switch through a Telnet session:
1. Be Sure of the switch is configured with an IP address and the switch is reachable
from a PC.