Planet WGSD-1022C [4/8] Terminal setup

2. Terminal Setup

To congure the system, connect a serial cable to a COM port on a PC or notebook

computer and to serial (console) port of the Switch. The console port of the Switch

is DCE already, so that you can connect the console port directly through PC

without the need of Null Modem.

A terminal program is required to make the software connection to the Switch.

Windows’ Hyper Terminal program may be a good choice. It can be accessed

from the Start menu. Click START, then Programs, Accessories and then Hyper

Terminal.

MS-DOS based terminal program such as PC-PLUS, PROCOMM, can also make the

connection with the Switch. The COM port should be congured as:

□ Baud : 9600

□ Parity : None

□ Data bits : 8

□ Stop bits : 1

□ Flow Control : None