[X4U] Hyperterminal

[Matthew Barr]

The biggest problem you're likely to have is getting the initial 
connection.  Most of those routers tend to want a serial connection, so 
you'll need a usb-rs232 adapter.  They were very popular way back when, 
but now.. not so many people need them.  Once you do that, you can use 
zterm, or any other facility to talk to a serial port.  Off the top of 
my head, Zterm is the easiest, but I'm not sure it's OS X.  There may 
be a bsd based option, since it is not something that will be 
inherently Mac.  Then again, if they are used to Hyperterminal.. Zterm 
is right up their ally.

Matthew Barr
Managing Partner
Datalyte Consulting, LLC
Apple Authorized Reseller
mailto:mbarr at datalyte.com
cell: (646) 765-6878


On Feb 24, 2005, at 10:27 AM, Robert Ameeti wrote:

> What would be the best equivalent for Hyperterminal (on the PC)
>
> A client who was a PC person is used to being able to run 
> Hyperterminal to console in to routers and such to configure them. We 
> can get the serial interface that all routers still use but I'm not 
> clear on what software would be best.
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