[Mike Lu] likes to add serial ports to his routers to use for debugging but he didn’t want to drill holes in his new RT-N12. After a bit of head-scratching he thought about repurposing the four ...

Connecting a computer running HyperTerminal emulator software to the console port of a router lets you access router information and modify settings without using the device's Web-based ...

To do so, one router needs 3 serial interfaces ... in case there’s no connection to a switch – this will let the interfaces reach an up/up state. This is all relatively straightforward ...

The version in question (PogoPlug Mobile v4) have been re-purposed in the past for things like an inexpensive PBX, an OpenWrt router and ... covered how to connect via a serial port to the device ...

Also, it can be configured via the serial port using HyperTerminal or similar software. It supports one TCP/IP and multiple UDP connections simultaneously on a single IP port. The router has ...