telnet using serial port

pjbii · 09-17-2005, 10:48 AM

Hello all,

I am wanting to console into my managed switches using the serial port on a FreeBSD (or Slackware) box. When using Winders, I use Hyperterminal, set the baud rate and flow control and access them that way however I do not know how to do this in a *nix enviroment. All the documentation I have read gets pretty vague when it comes to using the serial port. Can someone point me in the right direction to do this with BSD (or Linux)

Any help is (as always) greatly appreciated.

pjbii

rjlee · 09-17-2005, 01:10 PM

To use telnet, you need to set up a network interface over the serial port and use that to connect to a telnet server. But I don't think you want to do that, and that certainly won't work with HyperTerminal, which is a serial terminal client not a telnet (network terminal) client.

To set up a serial console (a console on a serial terminal connected to the serial port), you'll find a guide at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO

btmiller · 09-17-2005, 02:25 PM

Also, Minicom is a good *nix terminal program that does the same things as HyperTerm in Windows.