Console To Your Cisco Switch With a Bluetooth Dongle

hey youtube for today's video i'm going to show you how to console into a catalyst 9k this time around using a bluetooth dongle [Music] the switch that i'm using is a cisco 9300 but i tried it on 9 500 9600 and it works just fine let me just show you the inventory this is a 9300 power over ethernet so currently i'm connected to it with a normal console cable as you can see i did not insert the dongle and that is the output of show platform hardware bluetooth without inserting the dongle and let me just show you the bluetooth on the laptop and as you can see there is a device with a strange name i'm going to go to config terminal and enable the interface and do a no shutdown make sure you enable it otherwise the interface will not show up in the config i'm not sure what's the reason but no shutdown and enable look pretty much the same to me ask cisco and then in here i'm gonna enable the pin code uh add the pin code for the bluetooth in this case i'm gonna put double one double one you're free to choose whatever you want then i'm gonna show ip interface brief to see whether the interface shows up in here so far no because i'm not connected to it i have to connect to the switch in order to assign the ip address to the switch and myself and this is the output of showrun interface you can see it's in the management vrf that's where it should be it's not for passing traffic to the switch and then i am going to show you also the output of show interface bluetooth so i'm gonna refresh my bluetooth on the laptop and then wait for the device to show up and apparently this is the one i'm gonna connect to it and this is a problem with mac i think it's trying to use its arbitrary code in here i'm going to correct the pin code and try to connect to it it says it's connected so far no ip address yet might take a while because there is a dhcp pool enabled on this switch let me try one more time so far nothing i'm gonna go into the network settings of the mac and check for pan networks let's see if it detects something in there over there it says the interface status is up as you can see it has an ip address right now 172.16.0.1 and i am receiving 172.16.0.2 [Music] so far so good so i have ip connectivity over bluetooth to the switch i'm gonna ping it 170 to 16.0.1 and as you can see i can ping it just fine let me ssh into it and of course i'm not able to because i haven't enabled ssh i'm gonna go into the switch change the host name and then crypto generate rsa key okay and now i'm gonna go for enter now i have to specify the domain name the ironic part of connecting to the switch initially with the console cable that indicates that this connection over bluetooth is not really perfect so you have to set up the switch first and then set up the username and password and then do the rest of the stuff i mean without username and password obviously it doesn't work so yeah it's not supposed to replace the console cable itself of course it is um a progress that's how i would call it so take note of that so i'm going to create a user account now and try to connect to the switch and let's just wait my password i think i have to i have to go to line vtv 0 [Music] to 10 log in local and then i should be fine okay here we go i'm connected to the switch and as you can see just like before the ip address is the same 172.16.0.1 and my connection is the first one is via the console and second one is via vty however i'm using the bluetooth interface this time so matter of fact let me show you a few things uh sure on interface bluetooth i showed you before we are exchanging traffic over there you can see the counters and then additionally if you want to see the running config for instance what what is how is it set up what if what if you want to change the scope of the dhcp pool into something else let me do a show run and then include bluetooth blue if i can spell that right this is the ipool that you can go and change it to whatever you like you can basically choose your own scope as you can see right here it's assigned to the management vrf etc etc so you're free to choose and customize it the way you like thank you guys for watching i hope this video has been useful to you give it a thumbs up if you have any questions post it in the comment section below and as usual have a good one

Channel: William Shanaei

Views: 166

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Id: RgIoM-sW-R0

Length: 6min 21sec (381 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 18 2021