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Initialize and configure the switch with MacBook

Xiao Wang is an equipment installation engineer for a system integrator. In his daily work, he often installs and debugs various industrial computers and switches. An antique IBM T23 notebook that usually accompanies him is still heavy and slow after upgrading the hardware, and is installed with a WindowsXP system. The only reason for keeping it is that it has a more comprehensive interface and has not been willing to be eliminated.

Figure 1 T23 Notebook Interface

When it comes to writing documents, looking up materials, and so on, he has to change to another notebook to operate.

Engineers like Xiao Wang, who often have to deal with serial communication, most want the notebook to have its own serial port, but due to the slow communication speed and large size of the COM port and other reasons, the current notebooks almost cancel this interface. Some engineers only have to configure docking stations to achieve this.

Figure 2 IBM docking station with full interface

Fig. 3 Control line

In this way, the equipment can be debugged directly through the control cable of the switch. Although the docking station costs a little bit.

Xiaogui, it's heavy with the notebook, but it still can't meet the needs of the engineer. At this point, a better way is to use USB-to-serial cable.

Fig. 4 USB to serial cable

Although its price is cheap and easy to carry, it is not difficult to install and configure the Windows system, and for those who have long coveted the Macbook laptop, the cable still feels inconvenient to use under the MacOS. The following video describes several ways to debug a switch using serial cables under MacOS.

Figure 5 debugging the switch with Mac

After the configuration IP of the switch is set, the remote access function is turned on and can be accessed through the network through a variety of analog terminal software.

Configure video: http://edu.51cto.com/index.php?do=lesson&id=153067

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