Obviously nowadays when admining we mostly have laptops – laptops don’t tend to come with serial I/O ports anymore, so you buy a Serial -> USB adapter, say this one or any one with a legit (there are fakes) FDTI FT232RL chipset. Download and install the relevant drivers but where do we go from here? Specifically on mac, find your device’s tty name:
cd /dev
ls -ltr *usb*I added a handy little alias to my
.bash_profile so i don’t have to remember the screen’s tty connection name (obviously replace the tty.usbserial-XXXXXXXX with your converter’s tty):
alias serial='screen /dev/tty.usbserial-XXXXXXXX'So you can use this to connect instead:
serial [baudrate]You can of course use the same method to connect to Cisco switches and routers that have USB consoles:
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