I have an old Cisco 2500 that I'm setting up for the first time. I have an RJ45 cable plugged into the console port of the router and into a laptop. I open a telenet window but I dont know what to connect to, to interface with the IOS. Anyone have any idea how I can connect to the router?
Thank you!
2007-01-31 06:33:30 · 2 answers · asked by Larman 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
Ok I should clarify I do indeed have a correct terminal cable for the router to the laptop. I was able to connect using hperterminal but nothing comes up once connected and I can't type anything... kinda lost now.
2007-01-31 06:53:09 · update #1
you cannot use a cat 5 cable to connect, you need a console cable to connect and software like vbterm in order to connect. i am not sure on the pinout of the console cable. it is like a standard cat 5 cable just a different pinout.
telenet should work, i thinkyou just need the right pinout for the console cable. cisco website might have the pin out
2007-01-31 06:41:46 · answer #1 · answered by r v 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, you need to connect to the serial port so you can go talk to the CLI. It's possible that they used a static IP, I don't know, the box could also be trying to configure on dhcp. You could always use Ethereal to see if anything 'unexpected' is talking on the wire.
Baud rate? Flow control? Experiment, reboot and see if it prints anything, if it's all munged up then it's a baud rate issue.
Of course it could be stone dead.
2007-01-31 15:41:00 · answer #2 · answered by Chris H 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋