my first shipment arrived today, the 3550, i expect the rest of the gear tomorrow... it's kind of weird having the shit in my apartment... it'll be a constant reminder; configure me, connect me, make me go to porn sites... i'll do pictures tomorrow once i have them racked...
so i take the switch out of the box, set it on a stand for now, grab the console cable and i'm ready to connect it to my laptop... no serial port... not a problem... i break out the old desktop, monitor, etc, power it up and i'm all set... no serial port on that either and that's got to be five years old by now... damn... off to office max, nice that it's just up the road, and i look around a bit... over ten bucks for a power cable, nearly thirty for a long rj-45... i turn a corner and there is the section i'm looking for... 37 dollars for a serial to usb adapter... i have these visions that i'm about to nickel and dime myself into the poor house with this project... all right, buy it, return it before 14 days are up, and get a cheaper one on line... not a chance, 30 bucks on line not including shipping... good God...
had to install software for it also... connect it up, run putty, select serial, com1, defaults to 8, none, and 1
and i get errors; serial port not found... go to control-panel, system, hardware, (xp machine) and there it is... on com3...
works great... connected it up through the wireless router to the cable modem and i'm pinging the time warner gateway within moments... routers and more switches tomorrow...
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