After connecting Cisco via miniusb cable in the list of equipment in the section Ports (COM and LPT) appeared Cisco Serial (COM14) (not necessarily exactly 14, well, what can you do).
The adapter in this case is built into the tsiska, and, yes, you need it driver… We install them, reboot and connect again. But you can take a closer look and see that next to the “old” console port there is a mini-usb port with the same purpose. Nowadays, not every laptop has a COM port, so you have to take a standard COM-USB adapter to this lanyard. The same color has a proprietary Cisco console cable, which is usually lost by this time. Its ports are marked with a light blue color. If any of this is not there, then welcome to the console. If you connect to the Ethernet ports, which are yellow, then you need to know the IP addresses on these interfaces and the entry passwords – the main and “high” (under which, in fact, everything needs to be configured). Console are marked blue, Ethernet is yellow. As experienced guys, we approach from the right side: We are interested in its right side, where all the ports are.
A brick with a brand nameplate will magically turn into a useful networking device. Namely: reset the password, configure the interfaces (local and external), connect these networks with routes and address translation, and cover (no) with a firewall. Let’s conduct a session of black IT magic together with its subsequent exposure. Such situations are not uncommon in our covid world, when departments with their infrastructure shuffle every quarter, directors of directions mysteriously disappear, and another manager, in order to demonstrate his own effectiveness, quarrels with the only ciscar in the district and concludes service contracts using an ad site.