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Offline MrPete1985

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Anyone here work with Cisco routers/switches
« on: July 13, 2012, 08:34:04 PM »
I'm a student at ITT Tech and just started my first Cisco class, I found a USB to RS232 adapter so I can configure the router from my laptop.

I was wondering what terminal emulator everyone uses, the book says to use Hyper Terminal but Windows 7 does not come with it installed, I can copy Hyper Terminal from a Windows XP machine but as long as I am getting started I would like to try some other terminal emulators so I am looking for suggestions.

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Re: Anyone here work with Cisco routers/switches
« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2012, 01:45:51 PM »
Putty is an awesome free telnet, ssh, and terminal service.  It's how I always connect into my Nortel switch.

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

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Re: Anyone here work with Cisco routers/switches
« Reply #2 on: July 21, 2012, 11:03:35 AM »
Just had my Cisco class last night, putty seemed to work very well, clean and strait to the point.  I think I will stick with it, now I just need to get myself a CCNA kit

 

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