CONNECTING TO THE CONSOLE PORT
Connecting to the Console Port
The DB-9 serial port on the switch’s front panel is used to connect to the switch for out-of-band console configuration. The on-board configuration program can be accessed from a terminal or a PC running a terminal emulation program. The pin assignments used to connect to the serial port are provided in the following tables.
1 5
| | 6 | 9 | | |
| Figure 3-8 Serial Port (DB-9 DTE) Pin-Out |
| Table 3-1 Wiring Map for Serial Cable |
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| Switch’s 9-Pin | Null Modem | | | PC’s 9-Pin |
| Serial Port | | | | DTE Port |
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2 | RXD (receive data) | <---------------------------- | 3 | TXD (transmit data) |
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3 | TXD (transmit data) | ----------------------------- | > | 2 | RXD (receive data) |
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5 | SGND (signal ground) | ------------------------------ | 5 | SGND (signal ground) |
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No other pins are used.
The serial port’s configuration requirements are as follows:
◆Default Baud rate—9,600 bps
◆Character Size—8 Characters
◆Parity—None
◆Stop bit—One
◆Data bits—8
◆Flow control—none
