[CentOS] how to connect to a switch with a serial cable? - what command(s) to use?

Thu Nov 27 12:35:34 UTC 2008
Rudi Ahlers <rudiahlers at gmail.com>

Hi all,

I see one of our switches doesn't want to respond to HTTPS or SSH
commands, and I know it's connected to a server via a serial cable.
I'm 3 hours drive from that server at the moment, so how can I connect
to it from the Linux server, via SSH?

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Kind Regards
Rudi Ahlers