Once RealTerm was started and connected to the switch via the Console port, I pressed the ENTER key and was immediately presented with a “User Access Verification” screen and a “Password:” prompt. This way I can have two RealTerm sessions going side by side in Windows 7 or 8 by dragging the application to either the left or right side of the screen. 37 rows and 80 columns were optimal for taking up exactly 1/2 of the 1366×768 display of my screen. “baud=9600” sets the Bits per second to 9600, “port=3” sets the COM port to COM3 (you may need to check in your Device Manager to find out what port your USB-to-serial dongle is set to), “display=1” sets the display to ANSI, “rows=xx” and “cols=yy” is how many Rows and Columns of text you want your display preset to. "C:\Program Files\BEL\Realterm\realterm.exe" baud=9600 port=3 display=1 rows=37 cols=80 To make things a little easier to access RealTerm with the appropriate configuration settings, I made a shortcut to RealTerm on my desktop and used the following “Target” (found in the shortcut -> Properties)
#RESETTING CISCO SWITCH INSTALL#
Next, install and run your favorite terminal software. (These console ports are NOT Ethernet ports. The “Console” RJ-45 port on the back of a Cisco switch. A 6-foot Cisco console rollover cableĪfter getting the dongle working, plug the DB-9 connector of the baby-blue Rollover cable to the dongle and connect the RJ-45 end of the cable into the “Console” port on the back of the Cisco switch. Chances are your machine does not have the USB-to-Serial drivers installed already, so pop in the CD-ROM or download the drivers from the Interwebs and get the USB-to-Serial dongle working. With the USB-to-Serial dongle out of the package, the first step is to install the device drivers.
#RESETTING CISCO SWITCH SERIAL#
#RESETTING CISCO SWITCH HOW TO#
If you already know how to physically connect to your 2950 switch, click here to jump to the Catalyst 2950 password recovery procedure. Granted, I wasn’t really expecting any since the seller had not mentioned any, but to connect to a switch that I knew nothing about, the smart bet was to connect via the RJ-45 jack (which is actually a 9600 bps serial port.) So I plugged them in, but that was all I could do because there were no Console cables (aka. Well, the two switches arrived a few days later. In my last post on the Cisco CCNA, it was mentioned that an order for two used Cisco Catalyst 2950 switches had been placed.
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