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Once done press "Enter". In the next menu you can save these settings as defaults by selecting '''Save setup as dfl''' so that you wouldn't need to set everything up the next time you use the console.
Once done press "Enter". In the next menu you can save these settings as defaults by selecting '''Save setup as dfl''' so that you wouldn't need to set everything up the next time you use the console.
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* Press "Esc" on your keyboard to return to the console window and type in the log in name ''root'', press "Enter", type in the router's admin password and press "Enter" again. After this, you will be able to use the RS232/RS485 console.
==UART==
===Windows===
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To log in from a Linux PC, you'll need an application for serial communication. The most common is '''PuTTY''' - free, open source SSH and Telnet client, which we'll be using for this example. You can download PuTTY from '''[https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html here]'''.
* Launch PuTTY and select the '''Serial Connection type'''.
==External links==
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html - PuTTY download link
