BAYSTACK 5520 SERIAL PORT SETTINGS INSTALL
BAYSTACK 5520 SERIAL PORT SETTINGS DRIVERS

BAYSTACK 5520 SERIAL PORT SETTINGS INSTALL

Now I just have to find and install some more up to date firmware, that will be another post. Then, I hit CTRL+Y and got the menu I was expecting.įrom there I went to IP Configuration/Setup and filled in my settings, don’t forget to do the IP Address to Ping: otherwise it will not fill in the IP under the In Use column. The trick was CTRL+W, I found that bit of info at the bottom of this reddit thread and seemingly nothing else I skimmed through mentioned it.Īs soon as I hit CTRL+W I was greeted with the Nortel logo like below: I tried sending breaks as well as CTRL+Y (remembering this is necessary to see the Nortel Menu) did not work, in addition to just banging on the keyboard. I banged my head against the wall for awhile at this, putty still was blank! I had the settings right and the right cable so what was going on.

Make sure the settings under serial are set as this as well. The user must press Ctrl-Y to enter the menu configuration screen shown below. When connected to the switch, the main screen appears and displays the switch model and software versions. The Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 5520-48T-PWR model is 1 rack unit high stackable 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet Layer 3 routing switch designed to provide. A standard terminal emulator was running on the PC. So first I opened putty and set the serial device as /dev/ttyUSB0 (again if you are on windows or mac this will be different). A serial port on a PC was used to connect to the serial port of the Nortel switch.

BAYSTACK 5520 SERIAL PORT SETTINGS DRIVERS

I used ubuntu to get into the switch but if you are using mac or windows you may need to get drivers for the tu-s9 from here. Combining that cable with my usb to serial adapter like this one. So I did more reading and found it seems to only need a straight through serial cable like this one from amazon. Reading online some posts state that it requires an official Nortel console cable, well I did not belive that (or want to) as the official cable cost more than the switch on ebay. Baystack 5520 Serial Port Settings Some newer switches allow setting up a matrix (with rows and columns for each port) to specify from/to which ports. This turned to be a little more difficult than I expected.įirst I used a null modem cable, which after doing a little research found out will not work. After racking, I needed to console into the device to set an IP and make sure telnet was working. I snagged the switch off ebay for ~$50 which is amazing for 48 gig ports. BayStack 450 1-port 1000BASE-LX Redundant PHY MDA Gigabit Ethernet uplink provide greater speed connections to the backbone. I really wanted some cisco gear but it was just way out of budget for the home. Nortel 450-1LR 1-port 1000Base-LX, at Dabs. For my homelab setup I purchased a Baystack 5510-48T, this filled my need for a manageable (semi)Layer 3 switch and at a great price.

Baystack 5520 serial port settings