Planet Technology WGS3-5220 - Manual (Page 6)

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3. Terminal Setup
To configure the system, connect a serial cable to a COM port on a PC or
notebook computer and to serial (console) port of the WGS3 Layer 3 Switch. The
console port of the WGS3 Layer 3 Switch is DCE already, so that you can connect
the console port directly through PC without the need of Null Modem.
A terminal program is required to make the software connection to the WGS3
Layer 3 Switch. Windows’ Hyper Terminal program may be a good choice. The
Hyper Terminal can be accessed from the Start menu.
1. Click START, then Programs, Accessories and then Hyper Terminal.
2. When the following screen appears, make sure that the COM port should be
configured as:
 Baud rate: 115200
 Parity: None
 Data bits: 8
 Stop bits: 1
 Flow Control: None