Hello everyone in Linuxquestion.org. I am new here. I just want to let everyone know this great program. I bought three cisco 2501 routers and two cisco 1900 switches Yes I know old equipment. I got ubuntu 9.10 to talk to my routers. The program is called Minicom. I am sure most of you heard of this, well I didn't known of it until three hours ago. For those who don't know it is easy to use. To install it

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install minicom

sudo minicom -s

this will help you setup your connections

then to start it

sudo minicom


It is really cool.

Welcome to LQ

minicom has been around for as long as I've been using Linux (probably longer) I agree that it is a great tool, especially if you need to console onto a router or a server without local keyboard/video/mouse.