{"id":776,"date":"2020-05-18T08:54:41","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T14:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/?p=776"},"modified":"2020-09-11T11:14:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T17:14:01","slug":"cisco-catalyst-switch-and-macos-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/?p=776","title":{"rendered":"Cisco Catalyst Switch and macOS screen"},"content":{"rendered":"I replaced an aging SMC 10\/100 switch this weekend with a 7-year old Cisco Catalyst WS-C2960S-TS24-S switch that does 10\/100\/1000. The switch was easily returned to default settings by holding the mode button for 10 seconds; however, the web UI is then turned off by default. The web UI is enabled through the switch set up program, which required my MacBook Pro to make a direct connection to the switch console port using a USB cable. Previously, I would have relied on the ever-trusty <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dalverson.com\/zterm\/\">ZTerm<\/a>, but its not currently compatible with Catalina.<br \/><br \/>The following steps allowed Terminal.app and screen to make a direct connection to the Cisco switch:<br \/><br \/>Last login: Mon May 18 08:51:17 on console<br \/>brad@MacBook-Pro ~ % cd \/dev<br \/>brad@MacBook-Pro \/dev % ls \u2013ltr *usb*<br \/>ls: \u2013ltr: No such file or directory<br \/>cu.usbmodem14101\ttty.usbmodem14101<br \/>brad@MacBook-Pro \/dev % screen tty.usbmodem14101 9600<br \/><br \/>After making the connection with screen, I was able to run through the setup process with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisco.com\/c\/en\/us\/td\/docs\/switches\/lan\/catalyst2960\/hardware\/installation\/guide\/2960_hg\/hgcliset.html\">these instructions<\/a> to configure Vlan1 port with an IP address of 10.0.1.2 and finally reach the web UI on my network.<br \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I replaced an aging SMC 10\/100 switch this weekend with a 7-year old Cisco Catalyst WS-C2960S-TS24-S switch that does 10\/100\/1000. The switch was easily returned to default settings by holding the mode button for 10 seconds; however, the web UI &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/?p=776\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":928,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions\/928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}