On Feb 6, 18:39, Curt Vendel wrote:
> I was referring to the colors inside of the DB hood, not the rj45 cable
> itself which can vary from anything from orange, orange/white, green
> green/white, blue blue/white, brown, brown/white for most cat5 cabling
The Cat.5 (and Cat3,4,5e,6) cables are required to be standard colours.
> to the various red,green,yellow,read,blue,white,brown,grey for others
like the
> flat or silk cables from Cisco, and other manufactures.
There is a USOC (I think) standard for those flat cables. If Cisco don't
follow it, they're buying cable from an odd place :-)
The two points I was making are (1) there is no standard for the colours of
the cable inside the hood, so noting which colours go to which pins isn't a
good way to specify it, and (2) there's no standard mapping of RJ45 pins to
DE9 pins either.
There's a good chance what you wrote would work, as it *appears* to be one
of the common arrangements, at least as far as the Tx and Rx lines are
concerned, but there's also a good chance it won't.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Received on Wed Feb 06 2002 - 19:17:50 GMT