{"id":2325,"date":"2010-11-08T01:28:51","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T07:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregsowell.com\/?p=2325"},"modified":"2010-10-28T14:31:02","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T20:31:02","slug":"mikrotik-use-the-serial-port-to-connect-to-other-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/?p=2325","title":{"rendered":"Mikrotik &#8211; Use The Serial Port To Connect To Other Equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s sometimes useful to connect the serial port on your Mikrotik over to another piece of network equipment.  I don&#8217;t need it very often, but it is quite useful for out of band management.  The wiki <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.mikrotik.com\/wiki\/Manual:System\/Serial_Console\">article is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I made a quick video showing how to connect to a Cisco device.  I&#8217;m using a standard Cisco console cable, which happens to be a null modem cable \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div id=\"media\">\n            <object id=\"csSWF\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"640\" height=\"498\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,115,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"\/classes\/mtk-serial\/mtk-serial_controller.swf\"\/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#1a1a1a\"\/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"best\"\/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"scale\" value=\"showall\"\/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"autostart=false\"\/><embed name=\"csSWF\" src=\"\/classes\/mtk-serial\/mtk-serial_controller.swf\" width=\"640\" height=\"498\" bgcolor=\"#1a1a1a\" quality=\"best\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" scale=\"showall\" flashVars=\"autostart=false&#038;thumb=FirstFrame.png&#038;thumbscale=45&#038;color=0x000000,0x000000\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object>\n        <\/div>\n<p>Happy consling&#8230;happy consolo-ing&#8230;happy whatever it is that you will be doing with it. \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s sometimes useful to connect the serial port on your Mikrotik over to another piece of network equipment. I don&#8217;t need it very often,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","category-mikrotik","category-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2325"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2330,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions\/2330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}