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Cisco 1700 Router Hardware Installation Guide
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Chapter 2 Installing the Cisco 1700 Router
Optional Installation Steps
This section describes some installation steps that you might or might not use,
depending on your site and how you are configuring the router. This chapter
describes the following procedures:
• Connecting a PC
• Connecting a Modem
• Wall-Mounting
Connecting a PC
If you want to configure the router using the Cisco IOS command-line interface,
you must connect the router console port to a terminal or PC. The cable and
adapter required for this connection are included with the router.
To configure the router with a PC, the PC must have some type of terminal
emulation software installed. The software should be configured with the
following parameters: 9600 baud, 8 data bits, no parity bits, 1 stop bit. Refer to
the Cisco 1700 Router Software Configuration Guide that came with your router
for detailed information about configuring the router using Cisco IOS software.
Follow these steps to connect the router to a terminal or PC:
Step 1 Connect the blue console cable to the blue CONSOLE
port on the router, as shown in
Figure 2-5 .
Step 2 Use the correct adapter to connect the other end of the
cable to the terminal or PC. If your terminal or PC has a
console port that does not fit the adapter included with
the router, you must provide the correct adapter for that
port.