Showing posts with label cisco. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cisco. Show all posts

Saturday, June 30, 2012

Serial Terminal for linux

There are several ways to connect to a device with serial port console.
Example settings are for Sun HW, and Cisco routers.

Minicom:

Create settings file

# cat >/etc/minirc.sunterm
pu baudrate         9600
pu bits             8
pu parity           N
pu stopbits         1
pu minit            ~^M~
Ctrl-D
# minicom sunterm

Screen


$ screen /dev/ttyS0 9600,cs8,-parenb,-cstopb,-hupcl

Parameters from man stty:
9600: baud setting
cs8: character size
-parenb: disable parity detection
-cstopb: one stop bit per character
-hupcl: do not hangup on last connection