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Do Cisco routers have a console port?

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farley99

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Feb 12, 2003
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Do Cisco routers have a console port?

If its a new router do i just attach that to my serial port, type minicom and am able to manage the router?

Will it let me right in the first time?

 
Every cisco router i've ever seen has a console port, but what might not be true is that every cisco router has a AUX port built it.
 
dogbert2 is right,

all routers i've seen carries console and aux port.
console is enabled by default but aux isn't.
first you need to setup the new router with pc connecting to the console port (ip address, telnet...etc.)
after that, you can just manage that router from another router using telnet without connecting to the console port of newly configured router.
 
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