From the course: Learning Cisco CLI Switch Configuration

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 23,200 courses taught by industry experts.

Configure the terminal

Configure the terminal

From the course: Learning Cisco CLI Switch Configuration

Start my 1-month free trial Buy for my team

Configure the terminal

“

- [Instructor] Now that we have physical connectivity between the switch and the PC, the next step is to gain access to the command line interface. This is done via a terminal emulation program, which is installed on the PC. There are several options available including Tera Term, Hyper Terminal and PuTTY. If you do not have a terminal program installed on your laptop or PC, you can download Tera Term for free, at the following website. So this is a large matt, and it's a free download for Tera Term 4.86. It's a terminal program. Next we must we figure the terminal emulation program settings to match the settings on the switches console port. Those are 9,600 bits per second which is about rate, eight data bits, no parity, one-stop bit, and no flow control. Let me demonstrate this now in Packet Tracer. First I click on the west host two. I'm going to click on the desktop tab. And one of my choices here is…

Contents