2008 Aug 28 - Thu
Console to Cisco Device from FreeBSD
I'm now involved in running an ISP. An existing ISP. One that has been through severval hands already. One that
has many strange corners and alleys. Unknown servers. Inconsistent switch configurations. I could go on, but suffice
to say, my job is to make it all work.... better. And in the mean time, bring my self up to speed on a bunch more
technologies. I've been mostly a Linux hack todate. I get to add FreeBSD and NetBSD to my list. Baby steps first.
The task of connecting a Cisco device to the serial port of a FreeBSD computer and communicating with it turned out
to be quite easy. So for my reference (which I found at
O'Reilly BSD DevCenter):
cu -l /dev/cuaa0 -s 9600
This uses the first serial port at 9600 bits per second. Connection and remote access is as simple as that. To exit
the session:
~.
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