- [Instructor] Now that we have physical connectivity
between the switch and the PC,
the next step is to gain access
to the command line interface.
This is done via a terminal emulation program,
which is installed on the PC.
There are several options available including Tera Term,
Hyper Terminal and PuTTY.
If you do not have a terminal program installed
on your laptop or PC,
you can download Tera Term for free,
at the following website.
So this is a large matt,
and it's a free download for Tera Term 4.86.
It's a terminal program.
Next we must we figure the terminal
emulation program settings
to match the settings on the switches console port.
Those are 9,600 bits per second which is about rate,
eight data bits,
no parity,
one-stop bit,
and no flow control.
Let me demonstrate this now in Packet Tracer.
First I click on the west host two.
I'm going to click on the desktop tab.
And one of my choices here is terminal.
I click on that
and that will bring up my terminal configuration.
You can see that I have different settings
and the one I want is 9,600 bits per second.
Here's my data bits, parity, stop bits,
and my flow control.
I go ahead and click on OK.
That brings up the terminal program.
I hit enter,
and I'm brought into the command line interface
on the switch.