Chapter 3 CONSOLE AND TELNET MANAGEMENT

3.1 Connect To PC by RS-232 serial Cable

If you have stacked several switches together, make sure you are working ëNote 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:

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