No biggie Pete,
Of the dozen or so kits I've bought in the last year, they have all been
the same color combination, in fact so to the point that I just put them
together without even checking and they have always worked like a charm.
Curt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Turnbull" <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 8:17 PM
Subject: Re: RJ45 to serial DE-9
> 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 - 21:14:12 GMT