User Manual

3. Terminal Setup

To congure the system, connect a serial cable to a COM port on a PC or

notebook computer and to serial (console) port of the Managed. The console port

of the Managed Switch is DCE already, so that you can connect the console port

directly through PC without the need of Null Modem.

PC / Workstation

with

Terminal emulation software

Managed Switch

Serial Port

57600,8,n,1

RS-232

Figure 3-1 Serial / Console connection

A terminal program is required to make the software connection to the Managed

Switch. Windows’ Hyper Terminal program may be a good choice. The Hyper

Terminal can be accessed from the Start menu.

1. Click

START, then Programs, Accessories and then Hyper Terminal.

2. When the following screen appears, make sure that the COM port should be

congured as:

u Baud : 57600

u Parity : None

u Data bits : 8

u Stop bits : 1

u Flow Control : None

Figure 3-2 Hyper Terminal Setting