Cisco Technology, Inc.

Eric R Schmidt

Dattatri N Mattur

Niels-Peder Mosegaard Jensen

Sam Patel

A method and system for configuring a network device is provided. In one implementation the method and system may include directing, via a multiplexer, a group of signals defined by a serial communication format from a primary serial configuration interface to a communication port in a CPU. A universal-serial-bus-to-serial (USB) signal may be detected at a USB interface and converted by a USB-to-serial converter circuit to the serial communication format and directed, via the same multiplexer, to the universal-asynchronous-receiver-transmitter instead of the serial signals from the primary serial configuration interface. A detection signal may be communicated from the USB-to-serial converter circuit to the multiplexer. Alternatively, the detection signal may be directed to the CPU, which may then communicate a selection signal to the multiplexer.

Automatically switching console connection

A system and method for configuring a slot to be compatible with both modules that are compliant with the isolation requirements for power over Ethernet and modules that are not compliant.

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Cupertino, CA, United States of America

Eric R Schmidt