--- Curt Vendel <curt_at_atari-history.com> wrote:
> Its quite common....
>
>
> Nearly all of the Cisco equipment have RJ45 console ports on them...
Yep. I have a bag of spare DE9 and DB25 Cisco hoods I use for just about
everything.
> The great thing about the
> console ports on most devices is that they use standard straight run CAT5
> cables so you don't have to make up a custom one.
It depends. The Cisco stuff I have can use either a silver-satin-style
flat cable or CAT3/CAT5-style cable (presuming all 8 wires are run, not
just the two pair in use by 10BaseT). The advantage is that one style
of cable is flipped from the other, making an instant null-modem cable
by swapping out the wires between the hoods.
Unfortunately for me, I have Cisco-style RJ45 serial stuff, DEC MMJ
serial stuff, *and* several cubic feet of Nevada-Western RJ11 serial
stuff, including Telco-50 cables (like 50-pin SCSI-1 connectors) and
8-port boxes and 19" rack panels. It's what we used when we had 16-64
serial ports per VAX - custom cables that went from the 50-pin
connectors on the Unibus cards to the Telco-50s on the back of the
patch panels. Quite convenient. I got all of it when the company
closed (and ran a pair of 25-pair cables up my wall from the basement -
8 serial ports and 25 voice lines!).
-ethan
-ethan
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Received on Mon Jun 17 2002 - 12:26:15 BST