Allied Telesyn: AR-140 Router

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[PROBLEM]
Somebody gave us an Allied Telesyn AR-140 ISDN/Ethernet router... Great, but: The software (yikes! a win-wizard...) said:

Your PC does not have an Ethernet card.
You need to have an Ethernet adapter card correctly installed
in your PC before you can access an AR100 Serious router.
...

I propose that this error occurs, because I was using W2k SP4 and the AR-140 was expecting different DLL-versions for wsock32.dll, icmp.dll, ... They even had a copy of winipcfg.exe on their CD.


[SOLUTION]
We simply plugged in the RS232 interface, set the connection settings to:

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bps: 9600
databits: 8
parity: None
stopbits: 1
flowctrl: None 

Using the default login:

Username: Manager
Password: friend

I got a friendly "hello" in form of a simple "Manager > " prompt...

after entering:

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add ip int=eth0 ip=192.168.1.230 mask=255.255.255.0

...I simply opened my beloved FireFox and took a look at the AR-140's web-interface.


I just LOVE the good old serial-port!