After almost two years without a toaster I've finally come out of the wilderness and am once again the proud "owner" (ok, admin) of a nice shiny new toaster. Pity they're not as shiny as they used to be in the Good Ol' Days :(
I'm trying to connect this beastie to a console server. Specifically a Linux box with a Cyclades Ze multiport serial card. The Cyclades presents its ports using an expansion box with RJ45 female ports.
I haven't been able to get this to talk to the toaster's console port :( I've tried various combinations of straight-through and null-modem adaptors with standard ethernet and roll-over drop cables with no joy.
Can anybody point me in the direction of the pinouts I need in a RJ45 - DB-9 adaptor that will work with a roll-over drop cable?
For reference, I've got the Cyclades ports talking to cisco kit (3600s) using a roll-over cable. I've also got them talking to Foundry switches using the same roll-over cable with an adaptor using the pinout below.
RJ45 DB-9 Signal Pinout Pinout Signal TxD 3 --------------------- 2 RxD RxD 6 --------------------- 3 TxD Gnd 4 --------------------- 5 Gnd
RTS 1 ----+ +----- 7 RTS CTS 5 ----+ +----- 8 CTS
DTR 2 ----+ +----- 4 DTR DCD 7 ----| |----- 1 DCD DSR 8 ----+ +----- 6 DSR
-Ronan