If you want to connect to a networking device from Cisco or MikroTik, you getout-of-band access to the device over a serial console port. minicom is one ofseveral programs that can be used to talk to these devices over a serialconnection. [A serial console port] enables administration of a machine even if it has nokeyboard, mouse, monitor, or network attached to it. Read Arch Linux wiki on working with the serial console. Edit Configuration To set up minicom enter: $ minicom -s minicom can on...