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6. Make sure you have the following settings:
9600 bits per second
8 data bits
None parity
1 stop bit
Hardware flow control
Later on you may have to change these settings. Some switches (like Cabletron)
like to use flow control set to “none” instead of “hardware.”
7. Connect the router from the console port to COM1 on your workstation using a
rollover cable. You many need to add in a DB-9 to RJ-45 adapter to your COM1
port.
8. Now you can turn the power “on” to the router. After a couple of seconds you
should start seeing some information on the Hyperterminal window.
Troubleshooting:
Are you connected to COM1?
Do you have a rollover cable?
Is your rollover cable good?
Do you have your Hyperterminal settings correct?
Is COM1 correctly set up in your BIOS?
Supplemental Lab or Challenge Activity:
1. Go search the Internet for instructions on COM ports, their settings, and what they
do. Why do we set to 9600 bps, 8 databits, no parity, and 1 stop bit? What is
parity?
2. Look up a program called “Kermit” on the web. How does it differ from
Hyperterminal? What about “Xmodem?”
3. Go to downloads.com and see if there are other communications software
packages available.
4. Go to www.sigmanet.com and download the utilities for the Adtran Atlas 550.
They have a communication tool package their too. See if you can use their
communication package to hyperterminal into a router too.
5. Is hyperterminal only for routers? Try it by connecting to lynx.cc.ukans.edu
6. It is possible to capture text from a hyperterminal session and save it to a text file
WHILE you are working. In this manner you can see everything you did during
an active session. Click on the “transfer” pull-down menu, then enter a path and
file name to save it too. It’s just that easy!
So What Have I Learned Here:
Another day, another utility to use. Gosh! Will they ever stop? Oh who cares…more
knowledge, more tricks in our arsenal, more lines on the resume. We learned about some
more communication software. Hyperterminal is going to be used quite a lot through out
the rest of this book. Who know? Be different and use another communications tool to
access the router and impress your friends or just show off smugly.
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