Linux Terminal Emulator

StormStrikes

Can anyone tell me of a Linux equivalent to Hyperterminal or Secure CRT. Im running Ubuntu based distros. I suppose you could use the built in command line interface but Im not sure how to go about doing that to communicate to the routers and switches.

Thanks in advance.

chmorin

Try...

sudo apt-get install putty

Never used it in ubuntu, but if it works like the one in windows it should be good enough.

StormStrikes

Geeesh, you'd think I would have been smarter than that and thought of using Putty. Well crap, off to install putty. Thanks.

cpartin

I've been using screen from the command line. Works like a champ.

screen /dev/serial/by-id/<device> (just hit tab to autocomplete)

Ctrl-a k - Exits session
Ctrl-a b - Sends break
Ctrl-a d - Detach session
screen -ls Lists active sessions
screen -r session Reconnect to detached session

StormStrikes

I will have to experiment with that, though Im not that comfortable with the CLI, I would like to be able to use it more. I can do most basic tasks with it but I had no clue where to start when it came to trying to communicate with the routers and switches.

Mierdin

I don't have the luxury of a GUI for my linux box, so I use minicom.

It's a command-line only terminal emulator, and I can serial straight from my router to the small linux box, which is actually running ClearOS, a server distro of CentOS.

Using Minicom lets me SSH into the thin client that's running my ClearOS distro, and from there I run minicom to get to my network stack.

Gets the job done, and I only need to console for long enough to set up SSH directly on the equipment so I don't have to keep daisy-chaining like this.

anobomski

i second minicom. worked a charm for me

e24ohm

minicom for cli

GtkTerm if you have gnome installed for you desktop.

Bl8ckr0uter

e24ohm wrote: »

minicom for cli

I third this...

ajmatson

I have always used Guake and love it. I have it on all of my boxed that have GUI's installed. One key and it appears then disappears running in the background while you continue working.

DPG

minicom