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Task 3: Establish a Console Connection to the R1 Router
The console port is a management port used to provide out-of-band access to a router. It is used to set
up the initial configuration of a router and to monitor it.
A rollover cable and an RJ-45-to-DB-9 adapter are used to connect a PC to the console port. As you
know from your previous studies, terminal emulation software is used to configure the router over the
console connection. The Cisco Networking Academy Program recommends using Tera Term.
However, you can also use HyperTerminal, which is part of the Windows operating system.
At the end of this lab, the following three appendices are available for your reference concerning these
two terminal emulation programs:
Appendix 1A: Installing and Configuring Tera Term for Use in Windows XP
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Appendix 1B: Configuring Tera Term as the Default Telnet Client in Windows XP
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Appendix 1C: Accessing and Configuring HyperTerminal
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Examine the router and locate the RJ-45 connector labeled Console.
Step 1.
Examine PC1 and locate a 9-pin male connector serial port.
Step 2.
It might—or might not—be labeled as COM1 or COM2.
Locate the console cable.
Step 3.
Some console cables have an RJ-45-to-DB-9 adapter built into one end. Others do not.
Locate either a console cable with a built-in adapter or a console cable with a separate RJ-
45-to-DB-9 adapter attached to one end.
Connect the console cable to the router and PC.
Step 4.
First, connect the console cable to the router console port, an RJ-45 connector. Next, con-
nect the DB-9 end of the console cable to the serial port of PC1.
Test router connection:
Step 5.
Open your terminal emulation software (HyperTerminal, Tera Term, or other
software specified by your instructor).
a.
Configure the software parameters specific to your applications (see the appendices
for help).
b.
When the terminal window is open, press
Enter
. There should be a response from
the router. If there is, the connection has been successfully completed. If there is no
connection, troubleshoot as necessary. For example, verify that the router has power.
Check the connection to the serial port on the PC and the console port on the router.
c.
Task 4: Erase and Reload the Routers
Using the HyperTerminal session established in Task 3, enter privileged EXEC mode on
R1.
Step 1.
Router>
enable
Router#
Erase the configuration.
Step 2.
