System information

Manual:Special Login

Applies to RouterOS: v3, v4, v5

Description

Special login can be used to access another device (like a switch, for example) that is connected through a serial

cable by opening a telnet/ssh session that will get you directly on this device (without having to login to RouterOS

first).

Setup

For demonstration we will use two RouterBoards and one PC.

Routers R1 and R2 are connected with serial cable and PC is connected to R1 via ethernet. Lets say we want to

access router R2 via serial cable from our PC. To do this you have to set up serial interface proxy on R1. It can be

done by feature called special-login.

Note: that by default console is bound to serial port.

First task is to unbind console from serial simply by disabling entry in /system console

menu:

[admin@MikroTik] /system console> print

Flags: X - disabled, U - used, F - free